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03/03/2023 - Belgian tomato growers visit the UK, and can tech solve tail biting?

Charlotte Smith meets a group of fruit and salad growers visiting the UK from Belgium, to hear their views on our empty supermarket shelves.

"If the customer is willing to pay the price, we have produce available." - Philippe Appeltans, CEO of the Belgian salad and fruit co-operative, BelOrta.

In this programme Charlotte Smith has an in-depth chat with Philippe about how growing and selling on the continent compares to the UK. It comes as salad shortages continue on supermarket shelves here - blamed by retailers on bad weather in Morocco and Spain and by growers on retailers refusal to pay a realistic price for home grown produce.

And can tech solve tail biting in pigs? We visit a research farm at Scotland's Rural College.

Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

13 minutes

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Fri 3 Mar 202305:45
BBC Radio 4

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