Home-grown Agri-tech can fix broken food supply chain
Added on 03 March 2023
The UK still relies on the European Union for the majority of its food imports, particularly during the winter months when warmer countries like Spain allow for consistent production of items like tomatoes or lettuce. In fact, 95% of our tomatoes and 90% of our lettuces come from Spain at this time of year.
There are two key issues to consider right now.
Brexit, regardless of your views, has made food trade with the EU more difficult. The added bureaucracy required to comply with new laws makes importing and exporting much more difficult and slow.
Climate change has had an increasing impact on yields across Europe in recent months too. Extreme or unpredictable weather can have a devastating impact on output.
Taken alone, we might have been able to handle each issue individually. However, floods, snow and hailstones have seriously impacted on harvests in both Spain and north Africa – our key import markets – at the worst possible time.
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