Culli Keɓaɓɓen Kayan Nazarin Masana'antu Don Shafar Manyan Burtaniya

Calls are growing to save the Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR) center from the fallout surrounding AHDB Potatoes, after it emerged all its research activity will cease by May 2022. In a yes/no ballot in March, the potato industry voted to scrap the compulsory AHDB levy following widespread discontent about how the levy fund was being managed.

In recent years a multimillion-pound slice of that levy has been invested in AHDB’s Sutton Bridge center in south-east Lincolnshire. As part of recent announcements relating to the wind-down of AHDB Potatoes, all new research projects at the facility will stop with immediate effect, with just bare-bones knowledge exchange output continuing until May next year.

Ray Andrews na Norfolkƙwararrun ma'ajiyar dankalin turawa na tushen amfanin gona ya damu sosai da saurin rufe shi, musamman a irin wannan lokacin gwaji na ɓangaren ajiya. Manajojin kantin ba su da damar yin amfani da chlorpropham mai saurin tsiro mai inganci (CIPC) bayan dakatarwar da aka yi kwanan nan, kuma kawai ana samun iyakantattun hanyoyin, kamar ethylene da man na'ura.

SBCSR ya taimaka sosai wajen gwada sabbin zaɓuɓɓuka kamar DMN (1,4-dimethylnapthalene), amma cikakkiyar yardar Burtaniya ta jinkirta, duk da kasancewar ana aiki a cikin Ireland da sauran sassan EU.

Andrews ya yi imanin cewa idan aka rufe cibiyar, ƙarin jinkiri na zuwa shekaru biyu mai yiwuwa ne, yana sanya masanan Burtaniya cikin mawuyacin halin gasa ga takwarorinsu na Turai. Har ila yau, yana damuwa game da asarar ƙwarewar ilimin kimiyya da aka ajiye a cibiyar, wanda ya ba da shawara, warware matsaloli da sabis na gwaji, da sauransu, tun daga shekarun 1960.

Andrews ya yi sharhi: “Tambayar da ake yiwa masu biyan haraji mai sauki ne: shin kuna son kiyaye Sutton Bridge, ko kuwa kawai za ku bar shi ya ɓace ne har ya manta? Shin tsarin samar da tallafi na masana'antu ko nau'ikan biyan kuɗi zai iya taimaka wajan samar da kuɗin tafiyar? "

NFU horticulture and potatoes chairman Ali Capper said she was surprised by announcements on the winding down of SBCSR, before a final ministerial decision had been made on the future of the levy and AHDB Dankali.