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| Written by Business Weekly | |
| Wednesday, 29 September 1999 | |
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Farmers from East Anglia are lobbying the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth on Monday to stress that thousands of UK farmers are fighting for their business lives.
Farmers from East Anglia are lobbying the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth on Monday to stress that thousands of UK farmers are fighting for their business lives. They join colleagues from the rest of England and Wales in a mass protest, writes Alan Smith. Their aim is to raise awareness among conference delegates, MPs and ministers of the deepening crisis in every sector of the farming industry. The rally has been arranged against the background of a major survey unveiled by the NFU earlier this week, which showed that farmers and their families are in the midst of the worst agricultural depression since the 1930s. The survey - ‘Audit for Action' - revealed serious levels of stress among farmers together with overlong working hours, lack of holidays and spending cutbacks on essential items including food and clothing. More than 70% of those who responded expressed the lowest ever business confidence in the future . More than half said that during the past two years they had seriously considered getting out of farming all together. More than 40% feared that their businesses could keep afloat for only another year at the outside if matters do not improve. Another 33% said they had already been forced to lay off staff and that further redundancies were in the pipeline. |
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