MPs urge supermarkets to help farmers more despite assurances

Committee questions agreement linking price of milk to production cost and calls for tighter rules on origin labelling of food

MPs have called for supermarkets to do more to help British farmers and warned a government programme designed to offer support to the industry has turned into a "fiasco".

Two separate reports were launched by MPs after a sharp fall in the price that farmers were paid for milk last year. The National Farmers' Union warned dairy producers were facing a state of emergency.