Horticulture
(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to promote British horticulture.
This question was answered on 12th March 2015
There’s huge potential in British Horticulture.
We’re seeing exciting innovation. For example the strawberries season has been extended to 9 months of the year and due to new growing technologies we’ve seen the highest crop of cherries ever.
Two weeks ago I held a roundtable with leading figures in the sector to discuss what more we can do to help them grow.