3388 viewsNFU vice president Guy Smith has warned that the United Kingdom will risk losing its biggest manufacturing industry unless it protects British agriculture.
The food and drink industry is the country's biggest manufacturer and its largest manufacturing export sector, accounting for 16 per cent of UK manufacturing turnover and employing 400,000 people.
But Guy Smith said if the British Government allowed cheap, lower standard food imports, then the country could lose its farming industry and the food manufacturing industry, too.
