Supermarket says it wants to support farmers, adding produce is ‘still the same great British quality’

Lidl will start selling fruit and vegetables that have been “stunted” by UK drought conditions, as part of efforts to support farmers struggling with the driest summer for half a century.

The discount supermarket said it had written to its British suppliers that may need extra support, and would try accommodate produce hit by extreme weather conditions, even if they were different to what shoppers were used to.

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