December 18, 2020 12:05 pm
Former National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and World Farming Organisation (WFO) president Peter Kendall believes that agriculture’s direct response to the challenge of global warming must be to produce more food.
Speaking at a recent European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) ‘Focus on Farmers’ webinar, hosted by AgriSearch in Northern Ireland, Kendall said that farming has every opportunity of becoming a net ‘zero carbon’ industry by 2040.
“Agriculture is undergoing massive change and this process will continue. But farmers must be persuaded that the changes asked of them will be worthwhile. They cannot be forced down a road they do not wish to travel along,” he said.