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UK Farmers Warn Food Security Under Threat
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UK farmers warn soaring diesel and fertiliser costs after the Iran conflict, plus a record hot summer, threaten food security. NFU crops chair Jamie Burrows said some arable firms will not survive as red diesel nearly doubled and fertilisers rose 20 percent. Parliament's public accounts committee opens hearings on supply-chain resilience. Britain grows about 60 percent of its food and relies on few ports overall.
Reported by The Guardian · How we write briefs