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Supporting and developing British farming, and encouraging sustainable food production, is one of the three departmental priorities laid down in Defra’s Business Plan. This includes helping to enhance the competitiveness and resilience of the whole food chain, including farms and the fish industry, to ensure a secure, environmentally sustainable and healthy supply of food with improved standards of animal welfare.

In support of this we work in a number of areas including:

• Food strategy, personal food imports, food labelling and public sector food procurement
• Farm animals: animal welfare, animal health and diseases, and livestock movement controls
• Crops – including organics, GM crops, plant health, bees
• Fishing industry – conservation of fish stocks and the EU Common Fisheries Policy
• Farm management, Single Payment Scheme, Environmental Stewardship
• The Review of Farm Regulation, CAP Reform

Recent publications

• Bringing pets into the UK after 1 January 2012

• Great Britain and Northern Ireland Contingency Plan for Exotic Notifiable Diseases of Animals

• Government Response to the Farming Regulation Task Force

• Fertiliser Manual (RB209)

• Good news for sheep tagged before 2010

• A guide for pig keepers

• Driving Export Growth in the Farming, Food and Drink Sector

• Notifiable Avian Disease Control Strategy for Great Britain

• Protect your birds from the risk of disease

• Biosecurity and preventing disease

All food and farming publications