It is the NFF’s view that supermarkets and retailers can use their substantial market power to the detriment of farmers through lower prices, unfair risk burden and longer-term uncertainty that places significant pressure on individual farm businesses. The Food and Grocery Code in its current form fails to enforce a minimum standard of behaviour between suppliers and retailers. The Code must be significantly strengthened, mandatory and accompanied by significant civil pecuniary penalties in order to be meaningful for industry.
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Ashleigh Whittaker
Akshata Giri