High quality food is going to waste on farms across the UK – as some food banks run out of stock. A lack of workers mean that crops are sitting unpicked and are eventually being ploughed back into the land, the head of the NFU has warned.
Boris Johnson admitted the farming industry needed pickers as he visited one in Cornwall to pick crops today to hand out to mammoth queues of struggling families.
Speaking to Times Radio, Ms Batters said: ‘It’s a growing problem. I know glasshouses where tomatoes remain unpicked, we know there was a big crop of lettuces that was ploughed back in last week. ‘We have food banks at full stretch, and yet we are wasting fantastic quality, nutritious products on farms.’Volunteers work to put together food parcels to be distributed to clients attending the Bradford Central Foodbank in Bradford
There has been a surge in prices since Vladimir Putin sent troops to war in Ukraine, which is a major worldwide supplier of grain crops.and accentuated by the pandemic’ were badly affecting the country’s food and farming sector. The prime minister has promised to back British farmers to boost domestic food production, create new jobs and expand the economy.
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