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“Brexit bonus” as UK food and drink exports top £22 billion in 2017
Scotch whisky, salmon and chocolate are big hitters in the growing overseas market place according to 2017's UK Government figures.
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Westminster Food & Nutrition Seminar: competitiveness, skills and open markets
Representatives from leading food industry bodies and politicians were brought together yesterday to discuss competitiveness, the skills crisis, access to export markets and fostering innovation at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum's keynote seminar on policy priorities for the UK food and drink industry.
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Council of food and drink leaders and Government meets for the first time
Welcomed across the industry when it was announced in November, the Food and Drink Sector Council has held its first meeting.
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Government launches competition to kick-start next generation of food production
The British Government has launched a competition to spur the nation’s innovative new businesses.
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Little blue fridge part of guidelines to slash Britain’s food waste
More than two million tonnes of food are thrown out every year in the UK. A third of this waste is triggered because of how shoppers interpret existing date labels. Now a new labelling system hopes to change that.
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Britain’s Environment Secretary backs cutting bee-killing pesticides
The UK's Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has put his weight behind a call to impose restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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British Government offers new grant to spur farmers onto new technologies and equipment
Farmers will get a £40 million productivity boost from today (October 30) as the Environment Secretary Michael Gove announces the opening of a new grants scheme for investment in cutting edge technology and new equipment.
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Help is at hand for English farmers in the fight against bovine tuberculosis
Defra has announced it is funding an advisory scheme aimed at helping farmers avoid bovine tuberculosis in the most challenged regions of the country.
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British Government refuses to disclose estimates on food price hikes
Defra withhold information citing public interest and the impact a poorly timed release may have on Britain's Brexit negotiations.
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The Food and Drink Federation’s response to UK Government’s industrial strategy
23 January 2017 | By New Food
As UK Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to unveil a new, more interventionist, industrial strategy on Monday 23 January, that is designed to boost the post-Brexit UK economy, we hear from FDF Director General Ian Wright CBE...
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Great British Food Unit launched to turbo-charge UK food exports
21 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The new Great British Food Unit will back industry targets to further boost exports and support even more British companies export overseas potentially generating an additional 5,000 jobs in food and drink manufacturing...
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Food pioneers help launch the Great British Food campaign
4 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The country’s brightest food pioneers will drive the campaign to champion British produce and shift perceptions through leading trade missions, food festivals and sharing knowledge and ideas...
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UK food and drink exports generate £1 billion
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
UK food and drink exports have doubled in the last decade and have generated almost £1 billion in the past two years...
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UK dairy farmers to receive one-off support payments
25 September 2015 | By Victoria White
In England, dairy farmers will share £15.5 million in recognition of the prolonged period of low prices in this particular farming sector...
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Restrictions lifted following avian flu case in Lancashire
17 August 2015 | By Victoria White
DEFRA has announced that restrictions have been lifted following an incident of avian flu on a Lancashire farm last month...
