Million euros, chain-linked volumes 2010, and current prices, 2010-2023 However, over the past decade, French agriculture has faced an array of hazards, led by increasingly extreme climate events, which have constrained its output volumes. France has endured major droughts (notably in 2011, 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2023) as well as episodes of excessive rainfall (e.g. spring floods in and summer hailstorms/thunderstorms. These extremes have repeatedly depressed output: for example, the 2016 rains led to France's worst wheat harvest in 30 years, and the 2021 late frost decimated stone fruit