Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman warned agriculture is at a tipping point due to government targets for housing, infrastructure and renewable energy, which could see up to a quarter of farmed land disappear over the next 25 years.

A solar farm (Image: Mike Page)

A study for the cross-party All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture, which Mr Freeman chairs, found that without urgent reforms to farming and land-use policies to enhance yields, domestic food production could decline by 32pc by 2050.

Norfolk has recently seen a spate of applications for solar farms on agricultural land, including

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