Tomato shortages 'could last another two months'Therese Coffey, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs secretary, told MPs the disruption was expected to last for a further two to four weeks.
"The United Kingdom has a highly resilient food supply chain as demonstrated throughout the COVID-19 response and is well equipped to deal with situations with potential to cause disruption," she said. Ms Coffey added that she expected industry to be able to mitigate supply problems by utilising alternative markets.
The British Tomato Growers Association said of the shortage:"Whilst this is predominantly a consequence of the lack of imported product at this time of year, the British season will soon begin and we expect significant volumes of British tomatoes on shelves by the end of March and into April 2023." Justin King, who was CEO of Sainsbury's for a decade to 2014 and currently a non-executive director of Marks & Spencer, told the BBC:"There is a genuine shortage but we did rather bring this problem upon ourselves.He said most UK supermarkets still had"very good" supply of salad vegetables coming in but overall the country was short.
The uk left the EU almost 3 years ago So how come we are not in year 3 of a tomato shortage? Has brexit for tomato export/imports suddenly kicked in 3 years later after leaving?
Because limiting us to 3 of nothing does not work out.
And a number have.. no story here
Prices will be very high when local produce return to the shelves in a few weeks. The farmers are not getting the subsidies that helped keep our food cheap while we were in the EU. Brexiteers did promise subsidies but they have failed to appear. Billons missing.
For which reason don't you give a shit about this nonsense ?