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When Nicolas Richier, arborist and owner of the Pradelle estate in Vitrolles, heard the news from the Authorized Trade Union Association (ASA), it was as if “a real bomb” had detonated in his apple orchard. Indeed, the announced increase – of 25% in the price of energy per year and per hectare – would have a devastating impact on arboriculture, dependent on irrigation to exist. “In just four years, the price of water has doubled. And that is dramatic for us”, observes the operator, for whom the situation is an aberration. According to him, arboriculture actually involves lower electricity consumption, due to the natural flow of water that the “reserves…
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