Farmers told to produce more food to prevent high inflation

By James Hall, Retail Editor Published: 8:44PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

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Tractor on a maize plantation - Farmers told to furnish some-more food to forestall high acceleration Photo: GEOFF PUGH

Hilary Benn, cabinet member of state for environment, food and tillage affairs, pronounced that the UK contingency turn some-more excessively self-confident and rise the equates to to enlarge food prolongation for less money.

Speaking at the National Farmers Union conference, he said: "Not so prolonged ago there was a idea that the UK could regularly import the food it needed. Imports are, of course, critical and suggest consumers preference that they want, but we need clever UK production.

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"The tellurian cost increases and successive food riots of 2008 in cities opposite the universe [such as in Mexico City] demonstrated that the food security and food supply cannot be taken for postulated any more. That"s because we do need to grow some-more and we need to grow it with less," he said.

Mr Benn pronounced that he took movement last year to forestall the pig tillage industry from collapsing.

"You told me that if something wasn"t finished and fast afterwards flattering shortly England competence not have a pig producing industry left," he said.

The Government"s Pig Meat Supply Chain Task Force, that was set up in reply to the problems, will "stop that unsteadiness from function again", Mr Benn said.