French farmers may halve flax fibre area as demand for linen shrinks

France is the world’s largest grower of flax fibre and part of a northwest European belt also covering Belgium and the Netherlands that accounts for over 80% of global supply of the crop.”Growers have been advised to cut by half their flax fibre area next year to try and absorb the surplus,” Sebastien Windsor, a farmer and president of French farming body APCA, told a videoconference on Wednesd…

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