Experts: Shift to Regenerative Farming Could Decrease Climate Emissions in UK

According to several leading experts in the agricultural industry, there has been a growing momentum behind the shift for regenerating the agriculture in the United Kingdom, that can be helpful for mitigating the crisis related to the climate.

John Cherry, founder of Groundswell said, more and more people have been seeing the other farmers that are doing the regenerative farming and are happier for it, and the people might also be getting a higher yield along with the conventional approaches, but it has also been costing them more amount along with all the inputs so that, they are not making more money as expected.

Minette Batters, head of UK’s National Farmer’s Union, has revealed an ambition for the farming in the United Kingdom to be climate neutral by 2040, and the National Food Strategy of the country has now recommended that, the government has put aside around 700 million pounds for the purpose of paying the farmers for creating the carbon less and nature-rich landscapes.

Food and Farming, an in important industry in United Kingdom, is having a large carbon footprint, that has been accounting for around one-fifth of country’s emissions, and this figure might also increase to around 30 percent if the emission produced by all the food, which United Kingdom imports. In United Kingdom, the agriculture industry is accounting for around 10 percent of the total emissions in the country, but in recent years, that had been a number commitments made by the government of United Kingdom for decreasing those emissions.