{"id":712302,"date":"2026-07-26T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712302\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:25:20","slug":"sainsburys-strikes-deal-with-british-salad-producers-to-tackle-food-shortage-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712302\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury\u2019s strikes deal with British salad producers to tackle food shortage fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sainsbury\u2019s will increase supplies of British-grown tomatoes<\/a>, peppers<\/a>, and cucumbers<\/a>, as fears swirl of drought affecting crops imported from overseas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The supermarket<\/a>, which is the UK\u2019s second-biggest, has signed new 10-year partnerships with UK producers Thanet Earth and Eversham Vale Growers.<\/p>\n

The deals are intended to ensure that Sainsbury\u2019s can keep a steady supply of salad essentials in stock.<\/p>\n

Tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers have been badly affected by weather in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In early 2023, supermarkets imposed limits on how many of the items \u2013 as well as lettuce, salad bags and some other vegetables \u2013 customers could buy.<\/p>\n

That came after a combination of bad weather and related transport problems in Europe and north Africa led to widespread shortages in the UK.<\/p>\n

\"Sainsbury\u2019sSainsbury\u2019s has inked two deals to increase supplies of British-grown tomatoes (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Sainsbury\u2019s said that British-grown tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are already an important part of its salad offering to customers.<\/p>\n

However, extreme weather across warmer growing regions had underlined the need for supermarkets to think differently about how they build more resilient supply chains.<\/p>\n

Sainsbury\u2019s said that it hoped its long-term agreement with Thanet Earth would extend the availability of British cucumbers beyond the summer season into the winter months for the first time.<\/p>\n

The new British winter crop will be grown at Thanet Earth in Kent, the UK\u2019s largest single-site glasshouse complex.<\/p>\n

There, supplementary lighting, heat, and CO2 are managed to create the conditions that cucumber plants need to keep growing through the darkest months of the year.<\/p>\n

\"AA Thanet Earth worker checking peppers (PA)<\/p>\n

Benefits of the agreements would be seen on shelves as early as this summer with the launch of the new Taste the Difference British Salad Selection 800g box, Sainsbury\u2019s said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our changing weather, it\u2019s more important than ever to find new, innovative solutions to make sure our customers can continue to enjoy the quality produce they want all year-round,\u201d Hannah O\u2019Reilly, category director of produce at Sainsbury\u2019s, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvesting in more British production and supporting our suppliers to innovate is helping us build a stronger, more resilient supply chain in a category that has been impacted by weather-based shocks in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy giving our brilliant British growers the certainty to invest and innovate through long-term contracts such as these with Thanet Earth and Evesham Vale Growers will help us to continue to support British farming for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rob James, technical director at Thanet Earth, said: \u201cWorking with Sainsbury\u2019s in this way means we can plan ahead with more certainty and keep pushing what\u2019s possible for British growing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good example is our investment in the technology needed to grow cucumbers through the winter, creating the right conditions for the crop and helping bring more British-grown produce to customers at a time of year when that has not previously been possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,11237,51655,71361,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-horizontal","tag-illustration","tag-organic","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}