Friday, July 20

Plan looks to secure national food security

The Federal Government has launched Australia's first national food plan, aimed at shaping the nation's direction on food production and exports.

Producers, farmers, buyers and chefs are in Sydney today for a forum to discuss the green paper which calls on the public to make submissions on the plan.

At the moment, Australia produces much more food than it needs - enough to feed 60 million people a year.

Farm and fisheries production totals more than $40 billion a year. Out of that, food worth $27 billion is exported.

The Government says the first national food plan will help Australia achieve its goal of becoming the "food bowl for Asia".

Read More and Watch Video

ABC News

Editor's Note:  What I want to know is how they plan to do this when they are selling out all the farms to either overseas consortium's who are sending the food back to their country or to mining companies????

No comments:

Post a Comment