Farmers Weekly reports that the Government is negotiating new free trade agreements (FTA) at pace with major agri-producing countries, after NFU president Minette Batters urged British farmers to grow their businesses further through exporting

The UK agri-food sector contributes about £20bn in food and drink exports each year, but only around 20% of companies sell their goods overseas, which the Government says it is making extensive efforts to increase this nurural businember.

The NFU’s latest Export Strategy indicated that partnership between Governments, farmers, the AHDB and others would be essential to grow agri-food exports by 30% to more than £30bn by 2030.

The NFU added that the Government must follow the example of other large agri-food exporting countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, and match-fund the annual £6.6m of AHDB’s levy used to market agri-food exports.

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Farmers Weekly - British farmers advised to grasp export opportunities