UK Must Be at Forefront of Responsible Farming

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UK Must Be at Forefront of Responsible Farming

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The national scientific debate committee known as The Royal Society has put forward a recommendation to UK government, stating that they should be investing more time and money into sustainable farming techniques and setting an example to other countries. Further more, they have argued that the government needs to give greater consideration to the support of local farmers and surrounding rural population, as recent agricultural developments have tended to neglect workers in favour of new automated and industrial systems. From new roaming seeding machines to factory glassware production for product bottling, they are not taking the local communities into consideration.

In response to these calls from the Royal Society, Professor John Beddington, the government’s chief scientist on agriculture has claimed that a “range of solutions” would be needed, not only to secure farming the in the UK, but to also develop sustainable farming methods in other countries who look to us for guidance. He stated that people are eating larger amounts of dairy and meat products currently, and this is increasing the demand for agricultural commodities needed to feed livestock. In fact, Beddington suggests that the UK will see a 50% increase in food demand by the year 2030.

As an addition to the £50m that is currently spent on scientific research for food farming every year in the UK, the Royal Society suggested another £2bn be invested to firstly combat domestic issues, but more importantly start the process of solving the problems faced in third world and developing countries. Often these places do not have the knowledge they need to farm in a sustainable manner and often have the most difficult habits to change as their margins are so tight already and they are less likely to adopt new, potentially “exploratory” processes

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