defra in A Sentence

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    New faces at Defra.

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    The scheme will begin next month in at least three departments- The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(Defra), the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development(Dfid).

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    Magazine showed fruit and vegetable yields of 31- 40 tonnes per hectare per year(Tomkins 2006), 4- 11 times the productivity of the major agricultural crops in the Leicestershire region(Defra 2013).

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    In the UK, after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(Defra) detected the H5N8 strain the authorities confirmed to have culled 23,000 chickens. The disease is reported to have reached Ireland.

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    Magazine showed fruit and vegetable yields of 31- 40 tonnes per hectare per year(Tomkins 2006), 4- 11 times the productivity of the major agricultural crops in the Leicestershire region(Defra 2013),” says one paper.

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    More precise comparisons can be collected from the UK Air Quality Archive[34] which allows the user to compare a cities management of pollutants against the national air quality objectives[35] set by Defra in 2000.

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    According to a 2018 report by the Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(Defra), farming is now the“most significant source of water pollution” in the UK- and pesticides are a large part of the problem.

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    Defra acknowledges that air pollution has a significant effect on health and has produced a simple banding index system[37] is used to create a daily warning system that is issued by the BBC Weather Service to indicate air pollution levels.[38] Defra has published guidelines for people suffering from respiratory and heart diseases.

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