Urgent Government action is needed to stop up to 50,000 people a year dying early from air pollution-related illnesses, says the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, in its report on Air quality.
The Committee's Air quality report presses for new Clean Air Zones in dozens of English towns and cities to cut the risk of cardiac, respiratory and other diseases caused by polluted air.
MPs on the influential committee that oversees the work of the environment department have urged the agricultural sector to improve manure and fertiliser management to tackle air pollution.
The Committee calls for more spread of modern farming practices aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.
Neil Parish MP said: "Farmers are under huge financial pressures at the moment.
"They can save money and help to clean up the environment and improve health if they use the latest methods for managing manure and fertiliser and for feeding their livestock.
"Defra needs to target best practice support, rather than add regulation, to make sure the agricultural sector does all it can to cut pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions"
