France is increasing aid to farmers to as much as €2 billion ($2.2 billion) to help them cope with the devastating effects of extreme weather and high fuel and fertilizer prices.

The government is allocating between €500 million and €700 million for an agriculture recovery plan, with the final amount depending on parliamentary discussions, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told reporters in Paris Thursday. The funds will be included in the 2027 draft budget, without changing the plan to contain the country’s deficit at 5% of gross domestic product, he said.

He said the government has also deployed a €1.3 billion emergency agriculture plan, financed mostly by reallocating funds from the 2026 budget. That plan was put at more than €1 billion when announced last month.

Europe’s top agricultural producer has been battered by drought, heat waves and wildfires that threaten crop output, and which are becoming more common with climate change. Farmers are already contending with high fertilizer and fuel costs as a result of wars in Iran and Ukraine. That’s all adding to the challenges for President Emmanuel Macron’s government, which has faced street protests and union strikes ahead of next spring’s presidential elections.

The farmer aid “is all meant to help agriculture production adapt to climate change,” Lecornu said. “How to ensure, in very practical terms, that next summer doesn’t look like the summer we’ve just experienced.”With dwindling sales of its famed wines and grains that have traditionally been exported across the globe, the government turned to an emergency bill to protect the industry. The law, adopted in August, includes measures to expand livestock farming, improve water storage and irrigation, limit unfair competition and give priority to French products in public cafeterias.