What About Food? English Farmers Offered More Money to Adopt Green Agenda

Farmers are to be offered even more money by the government to adopt green agenda policies, the British government’s food department has announced.

Britain’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has announced that it will soon be increasing the amount of money they are paying farmers in England who are willing to adopt its green agenda policies, such as hedgerow creation and habitat management.

It comes as many in the industry struggle to pay their bills, with one farmers’ organisation warning that the United Kingdom runs the risk of “sleepwalking” into a food supply crisis as many drop out of the industry.

This does not appear to have been the main focus of the British government, however, with significant resources instead having been dedicated to paying food producers to implement environmental reforms. – READ MORE