Read why farmers and leaders of the food industry will meet Rishi Sunak 

Rishi Sunak will discuss with food industry leaders as zooming prices continue to hammer businesses and households.

They are expected to talk about how the UK can upgrade how it produces and sells food and increase production.

Rishi Sunak to solve problems of farmers and food leaders as prices soar:  

Farmers and firms have been battered by increasing operating costs, somewhat caused by Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Ahead of the meeting, the government stated it would offer 45,000 visas to growers next year to recruit fruit and vegetable pickers from foreign countries.

The move arrives after Home Secretary Suella Braverman said there was “no good cause” the UK could not prepare its fruit pickers to get immigration down.

The government also committed to highlighting farmers’ interests in future business deals. It said it would review farming and egg supply chains to “assure farmers get a fair cost for their produce”.

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Many agriculturalists have said supermarkets are not giving them a fair value for certain goods, such as eggs. Increasing food costs are one of the main drivers behind the rising living expense.

Consumer group Which? Food inflation, in specific, remained at “shockingly high grades”; with few meat, yoghurt, and vegetables, the cost doubled compared to this time last year.

The customer group even found that supermarket own-label budget things were up 25% in April compared to last year.

The UK’s challenger watchdog has probed supermarkets over increased food costs. Still, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), representing vendors, has stated they are “doing all they can to control food prices as low as possible”.

Julian Marks, chief executive of Barfoots, where vegetables are produced on 8,500 acres (3,439 hectares) across the south shore of England, said prices have climbed by as much as 30% in the last year.

Source – BBC