{"id":338592,"date":"2023-02-22T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=338592"},"modified":"2023-02-21T23:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T04:55:11","slug":"vegetable-rationing-could-last-weeks-as-morrisons-becomes-second-major-supermarket-to-limit-sales-nfu-president-warns-shoppers-face-further-restrictions-on-tomatoes-potatoes-cucumber-and-brocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/02\/vegetable-rationing-could-last-weeks-as-morrisons-becomes-second-major-supermarket-to-limit-sales-nfu-president-warns-shoppers-face-further-restrictions-on-tomatoes-potatoes-cucumber-and-brocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable rationing could last ‘weeks’ as Morrisons becomes second major supermarket to limit sales: NFU president warns shoppers face further restrictions on tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber and broccoli as UK farmers are forced to switch off greenhouses"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ally Blake and Tom Pyman, Daily Mail<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vegetable rationing could last for ‘weeks’, it was warned today, after Morrisons joined Asda to became the second major supermarket to limit sales of certain items.<\/p>\n

Perishables like tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber and broccoli have been restricted to just two or three per customer in a host of\u00a0stores up and down the country.<\/p>\n

The crisis has developed in recent weeks due to soaring energy costs which have forced British farmers to switch off greenhouses as they desperately try to make ends meet – leaving a dearth of home-grown produce.<\/p>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0a ‘perfect storm’ of flooding, cold temperatures and cancelled ferries<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have caused major supply problems on the Continent, meaning supermarkets have also struggled to access imported goods.<\/p>\n

Store bosses initially insisted that supplies will improve ‘in the coming days’, before the\u00a0British Retail Consortium trade body later admitted disruption will likely last ‘a few weeks’.<\/p>\n

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Empty fruit and vegetable shelves at an Asda supermarket in east London today<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Empty aisles at a Tesco store in Liverpool as a shortage of products continues to hit supermarkets<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pictured, clockwise from top-left: Cucumber, potatoes, tomatoes, sprouting broccoli, peppers, cauliflower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Minette Batters, head of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), pictured in December last year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Empty fruit and veg shelves pictured today at a Morrisons store in Paignton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), told the industry body’s conference in Birmingham:\u00a0‘Everybody wants to avoid rationing, effectively, which is what we saw with eggs in December but I think there are going to be challenges on availability of some food items’.<\/p>\n

The farming union chief said that peppers and other salad vegetables grown indoors were at risk, while there are also concerns over the production of other ‘field veg’ including potatoes, cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli.<\/p>\n

But Ms Batters added that the ‘last thing anybody wants to do is to create a level of panic buying’.<\/p>\n

Read More @ DailyMail.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ally Blake and Tom Pyman, Daily Mail: Vegetable rationing could last for ‘weeks’, it was warned today, after Morrisons joined Asda to became the second major supermarket to limit sales of certain items. Perishables like tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber and broccoli have been restricted to just two or three per customer in a host of\u00a0stores […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[149067,149066,149065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}