This week’s Farm to Fork Summit unveiled a raft of measures designed to support farmers over the next year.
The main measures included publication of the UK’s first Food Security Index and a commitment to appointing a Tenant Farming Commissioner in the autumn.
The new UK Food Security Index will set out how the Government will track UK-wide food security on an annual basis, monitoring domestic food production, land use, input costs and farmer productivity. According to ministers, the index will allow the government, industry and farmers to monitor the impacts of external factors, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or extreme adverse weather events.
This year’s index, which revealed that the UK farming sector is at its most productive since records began, has been published alongside a new blueprint to grow the UK fruit and vegetable sector in order to reinforce the country’s food security.
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