Les peupleraies : Quels enjeux pour l’avenir de la populiculture française ?

For 20 years, poplar tree farming has undergone major upheavals : a genetic revolution, plant health and environmental accidents, environmental pressure, major industrial change and social changes among owners. In the wake of these disruptions and in spite of positive business indicators, French poplar tree farming is depressed and planting has dropped. owners have lost incentive in the face of growing constraints and risks that are not offset by prices, which tend to move downward. The current context, which could weigh on the future by producing scarcity of the resource, might alter its course for the better if producers and users of the wood work together in close proximity alongside renewed plantings and diversification of the products to provided greater added value to the wood.