date:Aug 13, 2019
The Government is being called on to help achieve greater self-sufficiency and ensure a supply of home-grown food for shoppers.
The calls from the National Farmers Union (NFU) follow new figures which reported that put the UKs self-sufficiency at 61%.
The calls came on 11 August, the day the country would notionally have run out of food if we had only eaten British food from 1 January 2019.
The NFUs ambition is for British farming to produce more food for a growing population while at the sam