- Dive Summary:
- Britain’s National Farmers Union say that the UK’s food supplies for a year would run out today if there was not more imported.
- The statistic is being highlighted in an effort to garner support for increasing production at British farms.
- British farms currently produce just 62 percent of what the country consumes.
From the article:
...Food supplies for the year would run out today if Britain had to rely on domestic goods alone due to a sharp fall in production in the past two decades, farmers have warned...
