<div style="text-align: justify;">In
France, where some 540,000 hectares are devoted to organic production
— almost two percent of total farmland — interest lags behind many
countries in Europe and is in decline. A lack of government incentives,
high prices and the fact that much of France's traditional farm output
is less intensive than elsewhere have been put forward as reasons for
this. France has 11,000 organic farms, mostly dairy producers. The
government is trying to make up for lost time. Its new 20-year
blueprint for agriculture contained specific measures for organic
farming, which it said recorded a two percent drop in cultivated area
and a three percent fall in the number of farms last year. Under the
plan, France would grant a tax rebate to farmers who earned 40 percent
of their income from organic farming, a measure estimated to cost 18
million euros in 2006. <br></div><i>Fonte di informazione:</i> «Planet Ark», 2 giugno
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