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climate change • Drought blamed for 20% yield drop • Extreme weather much more likely • Risk of widespread flood increases
xtreme and unpredictable weather – made more fre- quent by climate change – is putting future supplies of Brit- ish potatoes at risk, according to a new report.
Drought and extreme heat are blamed for a 20% drop in yield for potatoes in 2018. More than half of all UK farms have been affect- ed by severe flooding or storm in the past decade, the Climate Co- alition study suggests. Smaller potatoes mean the av-
erage British chip is 3cm small- er, with some climate change pro- jections suggesting that the UK could lose almost three-quarters of the land area currently well suited for potatoes by 2050s. More frequent and severe
heatwaves and flooding caused by the changing climate is pos- ing a threat to British fruit and vegetable production, says the report. Last summer’s heatwave was made about 30 times more likely by climate change, accord-
ing to the Met Office.
The damaging impact of cli- matic extremes could make Brit- ish-grown potatoes and other fruit and vegetables harder to come by for shoppers, with more than half of UK farms saying they have been affected by a severe cli- matic event, such as flooding, in the past 10 years.
Challenging year
NFU head of horticulture Lee Abbey said: “A lot of growers will have come out of this year with sore heads and not much income. Farmers and growers are used to dealing with fluctuations in the weather but if we have two or three extreme years in a row it has the potential to put grow- ers out of business.”
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A lot of growers will have come out of this year with little income
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