Consumers could see gaps in the shelves for a variety of British vegetables, as they have with eggs, NFU chief Minette Batters told Sky News. But she said rationing could be averted with the help from the government and retailers.
Ms Batters stressed that the"last thing anybody wants to do is to create a level of panic buying" and was hopeful rationing could be averted.
"The real danger here is that unless we can give farmers and growers the confidence to keep investing, they're producing less. That will drive further cost inflation for consumers. That's what we want to avoid," she told Sky News. The government announced at the conference today £168 million in grants for farmers, focussed on new technologies and innovations, such as robotics or cow mattresses to tackle lameness, to improve animal welfare and productivity.
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