Food Manufacture: Government strategy needed to help food firms innovate
03/10/2012
Skills, research and development (R&D) and access to funding need to be combined into a ‘proper agri-food strategy’ in order to feed people in Britain and abroad in the years to come. That was the consensus of a debate held at the Labour Party Conference, featuring shadow secretary of state for Defra, Mary Creagh , NFU deputy president Meurig Raymond and director general of the Food and Drink Federation, Melanie, Leech.