Climate change ‘will boost British farmers’

Daily Telegraph: In a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, she said that, although problems such as droughts would become more frequent, warmer weather would also mean a longer growing season and less frost damage, allowing the introduction of crops such as peaches, maize and sunflowers. Already 10,000 melons are expected to be harvested in Kent this year. Mrs Spelman said farmers must "seize the opportunities' of increased production as well as preparing for more droughts and floods by building reservoirs......

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