09/09/20 Plumpton College fined over pollution, Robots on soft fruit farms
An agricultural college in Sussex has been fined 拢50,000 and ordered to pay another 拢45,000 in costs, after being prosecuted for polluting a river with slurry.
An agricultural college in Sussex has been fined 拢50,000 and ordered to pay another 拢45,000 in costs, after being prosecuted by the Environment Agency for polluting a river with slurry. The pollution from Plumpton College killed 1,500 fish in 2016, at a site which is important for breeding brown trout. Anna Hill talks to both the Environment Agency and the college's principal, to find out what went wrong.
Continuing a week-long look at automation on farms, we find out about a new research project which has just been given two and a half million pounds of government money to test a range of different farm robots for the fruit-growing sector.
Produced for 麻豆社 Audio in Bristol by Emma Campbell.
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