phytosanitary certificates – documents issued in the country of origin that prove the consignment is biosecure You’ll need to submit a PEACH application requesting a certificate of conformity for SMS goods, if both of the following conditions apply: If you import fruit and vegetables into Great Britain from a non-EU country and a proportion of your consignment is re-exported to the EU, your consignment needs to undergo both import and export processes. Importing green bananas from the EU and non-EU countries to Great Britain

Seasonality varies with product, growing season, and growing method, and is important for understanding how the UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable ( FFV) supply changes during the year. Domestic production is concentrated in the summer months, particularly for higher value crops like berries. Since 1 January 2022, if you import regulated and notifiable goods from the EU (except the Republic of Ireland) you’ll have needed to: Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme 2018 to 2021, Developed from Joanna Jones, Edward Pope, Debbie Hemming, Freya Garry, James Bacon and Jemma Davie, ‘Future climate risk to UK agriculture from compound events’, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096321000115. ↩ The UK produces over 50% of vegetables consumed domestically, but only 16% of fruit. In 2020, 93% of domestic consumption of fresh vegetables was fulfilled by domestic and EU production, while fruit supply was more widely spread across the EU, Africa, the Americas, and the UK. Context and rationale Fruit and vegetables moved from Great Britain to Northern Ireland need to enter through designated points of entry and meet EU import marketing standards requirements.The UK produces a significant proportion of the other domestic crops it needs, including 54% of fresh vegetables, 67% of sugar beet, 71% of potatoes, and 79% of oilseeds, though only 16% of fresh fruit. Apart from a reduction in oilseeds, these proportions have remained stable over the last ten years. Climate change represents a risk to existing production both in terms of making conditions unsuitable for some crops and allowing new pests to proliferate, although it may also benefit new types of crops. Context and rationale WRAP, ‘Working together to protect critical water resources, https://wrap.org.uk/resources/report/working-together-protect-critical-water-resources. ↩

Seafish, ‘Market insight reports’, https://www.seafish.org/insight-and-research/foodservice-data-and-insight/. ↩ As mentioned earlier, farm stays are really popular in the UK. Being a country so full of towns and cities, people find it novel to stay somewhere more rural. With travel restrictions in place during the COVID pandemic, staycations (many of which were in rural areas) in popularity across the UK. From shepherd’s huts to glamping to cosy cottages, there are plenty of agritourism options across the UK. Agritourism in AustraliaInefficiencies and wastage in food production and processing reduce both the quantity of food that can be consumed domestically or be exported. They also represent unnecessary land and resource use, contributes millions of tonnes of carbon emissions, and involves billions of pounds of wasted value. Someone in the inspecting plant health authority must sign the phytosanitary certificate within the same 14-day period.