<p>Agriculture and Countryside Policies</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 28 February 2017.

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Photo of Jane Hutt Jane Hutt Labour 1:33, 28 February 2017

This is crucially important, and, of course, we have got our action plan for the food and drink industry, working closely with food security and food safety stakeholders and partners to sustain and enhance the food production base in Wales, and actively working with the industry. And that’s about improving resilience, productivity, competiveness of food and farming businesses, and adding value to our supply chains. And, clearly, food production does put Wales at a competitive advantage, ideally suited in terms of increasing the variety of food products, but also looking to our own needs. And that’s where Wales’s farming businesses make a critical contribution to safeguarding the UK’s food security.