Martin Emmett
speaker
18 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 May
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Issues like planning, water, productivity grants, the way relationships work in the supply chain.
because the UK market is dominated by large retailers, the most immediate priority is to sort out these energy costs.
One of the things that's doing at this moment is causing some of our larger businesses to consider, do they want to continue to invest in the UK?
So, you know, if we want to grow the UK industry, we've got to create the environment where people, you know, think it's the right place to invest.
You know, a lack of support and productivity like they would have in Europe...
Yes.
So the Dutch government has promised their greenhouse growers £165 million worth of support.
It's matched by zero in the UK.
So this is a really key disparity.
that we need our government to face into to actually make it sensible to invest in the UK.
Well, over the past few decades, the UK industry has been consolidating.
But that consolidation, I think, is an ongoing process.
The thing to understand about these bigger businesses, it's not as though they're all concentrated in one part of the country.
Large businesses will at various times be producing crops in several locations across the whole of the UK.
So in terms of geographical and climate risks, they're minimised.
The risk is more within the business itself.
I think it's more about development of what we've already got rather than radical restructuring.
The one thing I would say is that this is going to be a test of the government's commitment to food security.
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