It's a non-strategy which forces the public sector to buy home-grown produce without links to farmers or plans. It's been produced to take people's minds off the failure of Brexit and the PM?
The Government's new food strategy - due to be published today - will oblige schools and hospitals to buy British food.
Environment Secretary George Eustice said that under the plans, the public sector could see half of all its food locally produced and certified to higher standards, as part of efforts to support suppliers and drive economic growth.
The strategy will also will relax planning laws to approve a new generation of large-scale greenhouses that can grow crops all year.
Meanwhile, the Government's lead adviser on food issues, Henry Dimbleby, has condemned the plan, saying it is “not a strategy” and warning it could mean more children will go hungry. He said the document "doesn't set out a clear vision as to why we have the problems we have now and it doesn't set out what needs to be done.”
Northumberland Farmers already produce some food directly contracted by the County Council but they have also stated that ‘we have no idea where the investment to change from agriculture to horticulture will come from as EU development cash runs out next spring and that the shared prosperity fund is far too small to develop the vision the Government wants to see’.
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