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<p>The UK has a high degree of food security, built on supply from diverse sources;
strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes. We produce
60% of all the food we need, and 73% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for
all or part of the year. These figures have changed little over the last 20 years:
historical production figures, including for the commodities you reference, can be
found in “Agriculture in the United Kingdom”, a publication of annual statistics about
agriculture in the United Kingdom at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fagriculture-in-the-united-kingdom&data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C8fafb35aa0964d16f59c08dc3a137857%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638449102505268936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SMlbt5rijclEBVI7xiBRwbT8hBKsOeQO2jrldDMU9a0%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. UK consumers have access through international trade to
food products that cannot be produced here, or at least not on a year-round basis.
This supplements domestic production, and also ensures that any disruption from risks
such as adverse weather or disease does not affect the UK's overall security of supply.</p><p>
</p><p>Domestically, the Government has committed to broadly maintain the current
level of food we produce. This includes sustainably boosting production in sectors
where there are post-Brexit opportunities, including horticulture and seafood, and
the Agriculture Act imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to have regard to the
need to encourage environmentally sustainable food production. Our farming reforms
aim to support a highly productive food producing sector by supporting farmers to
manage land in a way that improves food production and is more environmentally sustainable,
and by paying farmers to produce public goods such as water quality, biodiversity,
animal health and welfare and climate change mitigation, alongside food production.</p><p>
</p><p>Speaking at the recent National Farmers Union Conference in Birmingham, the
Prime Minister and the Environment Secretary announced a range of measures to boost
productivity and resilience in the sector, including the largest ever grant offer
for farmers in the coming financial year, expected to total £427 million. This includes
doubling investment in productivity schemes, bolstering schemes such as the Improving
Farming Productivity grant, which provides support for farmers to invest in automation
and robotics, as well as solar installations to build on-farm energy security. The
Prime Minister also announced a new annual UK-wide Food Security Index, which will
capture and present the data needed to monitor levels of food security, and announced
plans to hold the Farm to Fork Summit annually.</p>
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