Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of Leon, says UK vegetable shortages are a result of 'market failure'.
But Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium , which represents UK supermarkets, said retailers were "pragmatists and recognise they need to pay more when costs are high and product is short".Mr Opie said regulation for supermarkets in many European countries meant retailers there were "able to, and actually required" to pass on extra costs to customers.
He said importing tomatoes and lettuces from abroad during the winter allowed supermarkets to offer customers "best value for money". "There's just this weird supermarket culture," he said. "A weird competitive dynamic that's emerged in the UK, and nowhere else in the world has it, and I don't know why that is."Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers' Union , told the BBC that some producers were on contracts that could be renegotiated to factor in higher production costs - but not all of them.
"It's why we are seeing many of the glasshouses across the country mothballed. They should be producing high quality food, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, to deal with this shortage."
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