Champs Elysees turned green to showcase French farmers’ produce

IT was as if O’Connell Street in Dublin had been turned into a site for the national ploughing championships.

Jeunes Agriculteurs, the Young Farmers’ Union in France, representing 55,000 farmers under 35, turned the celebrated Champs-Elysees in Paris into a farm over the weekend.

Mini-fields the size of six soccer pitches were laid our along part of the avenue to showcase farm production and highlight the industry’s concerns.