One ray of light amongst the global recession is the rapid increase in farming. Farming across Great Britain has increased by a tremendous 36% since last year and is set to increase even more.
In 2008 England was subject to a sudden rise in food prices. Every supermarket added a little bit more on to each item to accommodate for the lack of food coming into the country. After all our farmers can no way supply food to the entire nation so we rely on imports from other countries. This will mean that any food produced in this country is going to be very expensive indeed. The entire country is eating far more than local farmers can produce so there is a massive in-balance.
The British government has recently committed to a new program for farmers to ultimately make all their expenses a lot cheaper. This will hopefully help farmers to produce more food and grow more produce for our country to eat. Ideally we all want to see farmers care for our land as they seek to produce as much as possible, in a sustainable way and with high welfare standards. That’s the future we all want to see.
Could we be looking at a mass shortage in food across the country over the coming years? I sincerely hope not and I know that many people across the country would not want to give up their weekly pizza for anyone.
So what is the answer? Well, in my opinion the government has acted fast by developing new laws to lower their expenses incurred by farmers ultimately making their lives easier to produce food for the nation. Yet the number of farmers is dramatically reducing in the country with hundreds of farms abandoned and not producing anything what so ever. I am confident that nothing too serious can come of this but you have to ask yourself if we are being as economical as possible to ensure our future generations a safe future.
