"Agriculturally produced food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, supporting a food chain that generates £108 billion in revenues a year, with nearly four million employees and exports of £20 billion. The sector is of similar local importance to other economies."
"But there is a problem: globally, the food chain is under pressure from a range of complex factors, including population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration – in the UK, connected with Brexit and tightened immigration policies – a worldwide drift from rural to urban living as cities expand, and an ageing population"
you can read the rest below, I have also added the white paper link which is more in depth.
https://diginomica.com/2018/06/22/the-rise-of-the-farm-bot-ploughing-through-the-possibilities/
White Paper
http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/36839/1/UK_RAS_wp_Agri_1.6.pdf
"But there is a problem: globally, the food chain is under pressure from a range of complex factors, including population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration – in the UK, connected with Brexit and tightened immigration policies – a worldwide drift from rural to urban living as cities expand, and an ageing population"
you can read the rest below, I have also added the white paper link which is more in depth.
https://diginomica.com/2018/06/22/the-rise-of-the-farm-bot-ploughing-through-the-possibilities/
White Paper
http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/36839/1/UK_RAS_wp_Agri_1.6.pdf
