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Food production is now the UK's biggest manufacturing industry, employing more than 400,000 people and accounting for around 7% of GDP. The Government is calling on farmers, growers and producers to think big and think global to help boost the UK's economic recovery. In this edition of Farming Today This Week, Caz Graham asks whether growing food could be the key to the UK's financial growth. She takes a tour of Mike Heler's farm and cheese processing plant in Cheshire. His father started the dairy business in 1952 with 40 cows. It now has a turnover of 拢60million producing 17,000 tonnes of cheese each year. But in tough economic times serious concerns are raised about some sectors of the agricultural industry that could be doing better. Leading food policy expert Tim Lang says the fruit and veg desperately needs a makeover to encourage the next generation of growers to work the land. Farming Minister, Jim Paice also questions what more can be done for UK producers to tap into a 拢1billion trade deficit for butter, yoghurt and cheese.

This programme was presented by Caz Graham and produced in Birmingham by Angela Frain.