The East
The East
The East
Place
The region is known as Britain’s breadbasket. Its climate, landscape and soils are ideally suited for growing wheat, barley and other combinable crops.
Production
It’s a major centre for horticulture, cultivating everything from peas and beans to apples, strawberries, salad crops, flowers and shrubs. Farmers in East Anglia harvest almost two-thirds of England’s sugar beet crop and more than one-third of its potato crop.
Britain’s pig and poultry farms are centred largely in East Anglia. The region produces more than 23 million table chickens each year and more than two million of England's 8.5 million flock of breeding hens.
It also has the second largest number of pigs in England, which is just over one million animals, and 26% of the national herd.
People
The East of England region employs 37,940 farm workers across 11,318 farms.
Data for workforce proportions taken from TIAH's own labour market information research.