Nearly half of all those orchards affected have lost all their fruit.
The announcement came in a joint statement from French grower organisations FNSEA, FNPF and the French young farmers. The groups have also pointed out that 70,000 seasonal jobs have 'disappeared'.
The organisations are calling on the authorities to provide relief similar to that granted to growers in the Gard whose holding suffered from floods two years ago. The measures they are asking for include tax breaks and more urgently, an emergency financial package as a to relieve those producers and companies that have been hardest hit.
Frosts swept much of southern continental Europe causing damage to blossom and burgeoning crops on top and stone fruit trees in early April.
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