UK farm minister Margaret Beckett has announced a series of fresh measures.

UK farm minister Margaret Beckett has announced a series of fresh measures, backed by [pounds sterling]500 million of funding through the whole extent of the next three years, to specifically help British farmers contract their dependence on subsidies, as well as to secure the environment and promote healthy, local aliment

The long-awaited Strategy for Sustainable Farming and cheer contains 'green' targets for farms, promotion of local commonss and other measures to bring farmers closer to consumer

Beckett said that change was vehemently needed. "We can't carry in succession as we are... considerable sum and substances of public money are being cross-examineed into the farming industry."