Soil Association calls for doubling of UK fruit and veg production

The Soil Association has called for the government to double UK fruit and veg production “through nature-friendly farming” after the House of Lords dubbed the future of the horticulture sector as “bleak”.

The Lords’ warning was issued in a report published this week by the cross-party House of Lords Horticultural Sector Committee.

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