SAWS loss risks fruit industry's future

Left to right: Robert Mitchell, chairman, Concordia, Hugh Robertson MP for Faversham and Mid Kent, Jim Paice MP for Cambridgeshire South East, and Adrian Barlow, chief executive English Apples & Pears, at the meeting, at Portcullis House, Westminster

Hugh Robertson, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent, told a meeting of the Parliamentary British Fruit Industry Group on Tuesday that the government’s decision to abolish the SAWS programme in 2010 risks ending a “huge British success story” in the top-fruit sector.

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