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  2. New Covent Garden Market - Wikipedia

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    It covers a site of 57 acres (23 ha) and is home to about 200 fruit, vegetable and flower companies. The market serves 40% of the fruit and vegetables eaten outside of the home in London, [1] and provides ingredients to many of London's restaurants, hotels, schools, prisons, hospitals and catering businesses. New Covent Garden Market – flower ...

  3. Voices: The real reason behind UK food shortages - AOL

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    UK farming is an energy-reliant sector offered inadequate government support to cover input costs, such as fuel and labour. These costs have risen 23 per cent year on year, but the price a ...

  4. Agriculture in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The UK has about 73,000 goats, mostly as milk producers; this number is relatively small by EU standards. [Notes 1] Venison production in the UK is mainly from red deer, with a few fallow deer as well, but there are only about 300 venison-producing farms. As noted above, there are about 26,500 farms with chickens.

  5. Agriculture in England - Wikipedia

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    In 2021 with 1,3988,000 metric tons, the UK ranks as the 13th largest producer of wheat in the world. [26] English farming is on the whole intensive and highly mechanised. [27] The UK produces only 60% of the food it consumes. The vast majority of imports and exports are with other Western European countries. [28]

  6. Allotment (gardening) - Wikipedia

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    Hobby gardens, which are mostly prepared by municipalities and put into service by charging annual rental fees, are now used by many people to grow vegetables and fruits and to be in touch with nature. The size of the hobby garden and the type of soil may vary depending on the region. Hobby gardens can also be put up for sale through share deeds.

  7. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of rural Africa, [6] and parts of Asia and Latin America. In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as " smallholder " farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres ) of land ...

  8. Market garden - Wikipedia

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    Selling to the wholesale market usually earns 10–20% of the retail price, but direct-to-consumer selling earns 100%. Although highly variable, a conventional farm may return US$0.03 to US$0.30/m 2 (US$120 to US$1,210 per acre; US$300 to US$3,000 per hectare) but an efficient market garden can earn in the US$2 to US$5/m 2 (US$8,100 to US$20,200 per acre; US$20,000 to US$50,000 per hectare ...

  9. Vegetable box scheme - Wikipedia

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    A vegetable box scheme is an operation that delivers fresh fruit and vegetables, often locally grown and organic, either directly to the customer or to a local collection point. Typically the produce is sold as an ongoing weekly subscription and the offering may vary week to week depending on what is in season.

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