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France exports wheat but increasingly imports flour

Although it is Europe's leading wheat producer, France remains the continent's second-largest flour importer—a paradoxical situation revealing structural imbalances.

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This trend highlights fragmentation in the agricultural value chain: strong raw material production but insufficient industrial processing on national soil.

Food sovereignty and agricultural profitability issues are relaunching debate over the reorganization of European grain supply chains.

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