Summary
When, in their blackest, most despairing moments, farmers need to cheer themselves up they generally do so by means of a couple of strokes of the computer keyboard - the ones that take them to Defra's site.
On there they can read this: "Farming makes a huge contribution to our rural economy and to our way of life. It contributed approximately Pounds 6.8 billion to the UK economy in 2008. It uses around three quarters of this country's land area, and employs around half a million people.See the full content of this document
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Defra's Here to Help - You Must Be Joking
"One of Defra's major tasks is to help this vital industry meet the challenges of food security and climate change by enabling farmers to care for the land, produce efficiently and sus...
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