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Farming Today: UK milk selling to Qatar, UK wheat to Egypt, Food waste

29/09/2017

UK milk selling to Qatar, UK wheat to Egypt, Food waste

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, UK milk selling to Qatar, UK wheat to Egypt, Food waste

A Birmingham company is selling fresh UK milk to the Middle East.

One company is discovering a market for UK fresh milk in Qatar, flour from the UK could soon be sold to Egyptian bakers, and the Food Bank in Scotland suppplying fresh dairy goods.

The Midlands milk that's going to the Middle East. A Birmingham company is selling fresh UK milk to the hypermarkets of Qatar which are selling two litres of Cheshire, Shropshire or Staffordshire milk for more than five pounds a bottle. Efforts to increase UK Wheat exports have been made with baking workshops in Egypt. Millers in Cairo have been sampling UK flour to bake their staple breads and biscuits in an effort to find new markets. And how one rural scottish foodbank is working to get more fresh dairy products to its clients by working with a local dairy to use surplus milk, yoghurt, cheese and dairy which would otherwise be thrown away.

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