BBC Farming Today have released information that many companies are buying up farmland in the UK in order to just plant trees to offset their carbon credits.
This won’t help the food security problem within the UK. (Unless, of course, if they plant fruit trees) BUT this is unlikely to happen as the policy has been for years that mainstream farming can’t get the staff to harvest these crops and so that is why they have been grubbing up orchards to replace them with some other use.
Will the Welsh Govt help fund Horticulture in Wales. 97% of fruit and veg is imported into the UK this report said. Therefore this means that only 3% of fruit and veg is grown within the UK not 4% as was previously released on Farming Today recently.
The Rhondda Valley also produces some, but obviously not enough, fruit and veg.
The Rhondda Valley was particularly mentioned in relation to the problem of food security