Region. High cost driving out farmers

The high cost of land in the Sydney Basin was driving farmers out, as more people want to build houses on the scarce land that was left near the city and the trend was set to accelerate with the number of food producers due to be halved in ten years, according to a report by the ABC.Country Hour's, David Claughton. A panel, at a Feeding Sydney conference, thought governments had to value agriculture more highly, and the retailers and the manufactures had far too much power and the ACCC should hold them to account. City people spent a lot of money on food but it was fast food or alcohol. They should be taught the real value of food and the value of good healthy fresh food. The UWS Hawkesbury Foundation, in association with the University of Western Sydney, organised the inaugural Hawkesbury Conference