Defra to hold crisis meeting to tackle impact of fertiliser costs on food prices

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Defra to hold crisis meeting to tackle impact of fertiliser costs on food prices
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The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will host a fertiliser roundtable this week with industry bodies, chaired by the farming minister Victoria Prentis, to discuss pressures on farmers and to come up with possible solutions to soaring prices.The meeting will also look at alternatives to ammonium nitrate fertiliser, including those produced from organic material, as well as the use of some traditional farming practices, where crops are grown without fertiliser.

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