The planned death of endive. France is the world's leading producer: 140,000 tonnes per year.
It's the season and it may be the last year that you will find them in quantity and at an affordable price on the stalls. Without a response by then, many farmers will throw in the towel and production will collapse. It could join cherries, hazelnuts, spinach, mustard, productions in decline for the same reasons: deliberately inflicted technical impasses. This also concerns inulin chicory, which is used to produce medicines.