EFRA projects a shrinkage of UK’s food production sector
A report by the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) has indicated that the UK food production industry would “permanently” shrink unless problems were dealt with. MPs have warned that labour shortages as a result of Brexit and the pandemic are set to make Britain more dependent on food imports. MPs also added that crops are going unharvested and rotting in the fields, as seasonal agricultural labourers from…