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Candidates need to take forward thinking approach to embrace farmers and rural communities ahead of General Election

Victoria Vyvyan, CLA president, speaking ahead of the General Election, has urged all political parties to empower the rural economy by embracing the communities which work and live in the countryside

Chris Brayford
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"Governments of all colours have treated rural areas as a museum, failing to generate the conditions necessary for growth."
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"Governments of all colours have treated rural areas as a museum, failing to generate the conditions necessary for growth."

The Country Land and Business Association have made a plea to political parties to support farmers by producing an ambitious plan to grow the rural economy instead of treating the countryside as a 'rural...

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