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Radio Leicester,5 mins

How local growers can tackle food shortages

Ady Dayman

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Asda and Morrisons are limiting sales of a lot of fruit and veg. The official explanation is shortages are due to unhelpful weather. Pictures of empty supermarket shelves have been circulating on social media in recent days, after customers found it hard to get some items. To try and make sense of it all - and to talk to us about the mysterious Blaby tomato - Ady spoke to plant scientist Russell Sharp on the line.

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