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Farming Today: Rural manifesto pledges

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29/05/2017

Rural manifesto pledges

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Rural manifesto pledges

Farming Today explores the rural election promises of the Green Party and Plaid Cymru.

Farming Today embarks on a week-long round-up of the election promises of the political parties. Today Charlotte Smith talks to the Green Party and Plaid Cymru.

Charlotte Smith talks to the agricultural spokespeople of the Green Party and Plaid Cymru, at the start of a week looking at the rural manifesto pledges of the various political parties. What are they promising farmers and rural communities, as election day approaches?

We also hear about the re-opening of a piece of rural heritage in Oxfordshire.

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