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The most recent statistics for the horticulture industry show that in 2022 the UK produced around 2.4m tonnes of vegetables and 652,000 tonnes of fruit, with a value of £1.8bn and £1bn respectively.
Hayley Coyle - BBC News February 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM When a virus swept through the ewes at Rebecca Wilson's family farm in North Yorkshire, leaving new-born lambs either dead or deformed, it hit ...
A representative from the UFU called on the UK Government to deliver a mechanism to deal with post-Brexit regulatory divergence. UK-EU divergence putting some farming sectors in NI at risk, peers ...
Agriculture in the United Kingdom. A combine harvester in Scotland. Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area, employs 1% of its workforce (471,000 people) [1] [2] and contributes 0.5% of its gross value added ( £ 11.2 billion). [3] The UK currently produces about 54% of its domestic food consumption.
Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the labour force. It contributes around 2% of GDP. Around two thirds of production is devoted to livestock, one third to arable crops. Agriculture is heavily subsidised by the European Union's ...
Agriculture in Wales has in the past been a major part of the economy of Wales, a largely rural country which is part of the United Kingdom. Wales is mountainous and has a mild, wet climate. This results in only a small proportion of the land area being suitable for arable cropping, but grass for the grazing of livestock is present in abundance ...
A study has warned that over a quarter of particle pollution in the UK cities are caused by farming and can lead to serious health concerns. Researchers from University College London - UCL ...
Farming Today. Farming Today is a radio programme about food, farming, and the countryside broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast each weekday morning (having been recorded the day before) from 5.45 to 5.58, and a longer programme ( Farming Today This Week) is broadcast on Saturdays between 6.30 and 6.55.