Wales' Uplands Hold a Key to Food Production ; Farmers Call for Better Use of Common Land

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UPLAND areas of Wales, including the national parks, should play an increasing role in future food production, farmers have urged.

With the prospects of an uncertain climate, oil-based fertiliser shortages and an exploding world population, they say these mostly inaccessible areas could be making "a serious contribution" to sustainability and food supply - from the valleys as well as the hills.

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Wales' Uplands Hold a Key to Food Production ; Farmers Call for Better Use of Common Land

They say a future that incorporates farming practices of 50 to 100 years ago, where sheep are reared on the hills and brought down in the winter to fertilise the lowlands for crops, would pr...

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