UK veg shortages have very little to do with Brexit and are more about the economics of supply and demand, writes thekarengreen
I am not boasting or being smug just sharing my reality whilst back in Blighty, you are being rationed with a measly three units per person - if you can even find them.The UK produces just 54% of its vegetablesThe rest is imported. If you compare this to France who produces over 100% of the country’s food needs - in fact in a 2010 report it showed that only Australia and USA are more self-sufficient in terms of feeding their own people.
The only additional challenge that Brexit has made to this situation is the slow replacement of farmers subsidies which they were getting from the EU and therefore the fact that many farmers have decided to grow something else or stop altogether because they just cannot make ends meet. But that is just a small part of the equation.
But mainly in the summer and outside the season, we source them from the Netherlands which for me are lacking in taste but are perfectly formed.
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