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Does the UK have enough farmland to grow crops for fuel and for food?

April 26, 2017crops farmland food FUEL grow UK

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Does the UK have enough farmland to grow crops for fuel and for food?

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) says that there is an adequate amount of land in the UK on which to grow crops for both fuel and food. The NFU estimates that there is around 1.2 million hectares (ha) of spare arable land which could be used to grow crops such as wheat for the production of bioethanol, in addition to large amounts of set-aside land, some of which the NFU believes could be used for this purpose.