
30/09/2022: Scottish Rural Visas, English Vineyard, Flea Beetles and Pesticide Legislation
The Scottish Government wants to create rural visas to allow remote communities to attract people from abroad to work.
The Scottish Government wants to create a 'bespoke rural visa' to allow remote communities - and farms - to attract people from abroad to work, but it needs the Westminster Government鈥檚 approval, Charlotte hears from a Scottish minister.
One of the newest English vineyards has just opened in Suffolk, Catherine Scarff left a job in the music industry, studied viticulture, and joined the family farm to start a new venture.
Some agronomists reckon farmers will lose 20% of their crop to the flea beetle this year, one farmer near Cambridge explains how he has been affected.
Meanwhile, as the Government plans to revoke pesticide legislation - when it removes EU laws from the statute books - ministers say that this will not come at the expense of high environmental standards, Matt Shardlow Chief Executive of Buglife is not convinced.
Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Alun Beach
Editor: Dimitri Houtart
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