The encroachment of ground-mounted solar PV arrays (referred to as solar PV) onto farmland is considered to run counter to Downing Street’s 2022 Growth Plan, in which agricultural productivity has been described as being “weak for many years”. The Government has committed to “. review frameworks for. .
The biggest threat to British food production and security is not solar PV generation on moderate quality agricultural land but is in fact climate change. As the 2022 summer heatwave has shown, the UK is poorly equipped to. .
The proposed policy harks back to a time of old where a high input model of farming was pursued at the expense of the natural environment. That model is one that British farmers themselves. [pdf]
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