This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Make Devon the Organic County of the UK agriculturally and horticulturally.
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There is a need for safe food production and a worldwide purchasing power for this.
Many growers are already soil certified and as a lot of land is currently unused by the landowners, hoping to sell for building, it would be easy to obtain certification for this land.
Devon would remain green.
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