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Farmers Have Been Warned That They Could Be Facing Harder Times Due To The Growing Crisis Of Over-Production

1987 , Bottisham (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 12656

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Michael Jopling delivers a tough message for “too successful” farmers.

Film Library scenes of grain harvesting with large combines. Anglia TV reporter Greg Barnes explains that Michael Jopling, Minister for Agriculture, has said that UK farmers are too efficient. Their success adds to the Common Market over-production. The East of England region has some of the most productive land, and it is likely that uses other than growing crops will need to be found for some of that land. This is the message Mr Jopling is bringing to a meeting of farmers, local politicians and residents at Bottisham in Cambridgeshire. He receives questions about the possibility of quota systems, bans on certain fertilisers and other restrictions which would affect farmers’ income. Interviewed, Mr Jopling says he acknowledges these are tough times for farmers, not just in the UK but in Europe and around the world. He mentions that the agriculture minister in Germany was burnt in effigy by 10,000 farmers in Hanover, and the large scale of bankruptcy of farmers in the USA. There are huge surpluses we can neither eat nor sell, and there has got to be a cut-back on production. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Agriculture; Harvesting; Over-production; Food mountains; Members of Parliament; Farmers

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Farmers Have Been Warned That They Could Be Facing Harder Times Due To The Growing Crisis Of Over-Production

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