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THE countryside is first and foremost about farming. Over the centuries, agriculture has created the British landscape. We rightly talk of farmers’ roles in protecting the environment, recovering our biodiversity and fighting climate change, but we must never forget that, in a world where food supplies are increasingly under threat, we depend on British agriculture for 60% of our food.
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