British farming now a part-time job
NZPA London Two out of every three British fanners has a second source of income outside agriculture and only a half of the country’s farms are considered full-time enterprises, according to a Government report. About one in four farmers earns more than £2OOO ($5600) from an outside activity and every fifth farmer earned more thin half their income from -non-farming activities, the report said. The report, from the
National Audit Office, said there were 260,000 farm holdings in Britain. Although only 50 per cent were full-time businesses, they produced 97 per cent of the country’s output.
The head of the Audit Office, Sir Gordon Downay, said Government departments had failed to determine how much of the £1.5 billion ($4.2 billion) annual subsidy given to British agriculture was kept by farmers and how much passed into nonfarming hands.
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