Do you Love Chips? Ever imagined of Life without Chips?
Well, the British community is staring at a possiblity of missing out on this precious food called Chips.
This is due to the return of an unpredictable weather like that seen last summer to disrupt the UK’s fruit and vegetable yields.
Potato production saw a 20 per cent drop last summer compared to the previous season as a result of heatwaves and drought, the Climate Coalition of environmental and social groups reported.
Campaigners have warned that extreme temperatures driven by climate change, could damage future potato yields and threaten the much-loved British chips.
Future yields of fruit and vegetables produced in the UK, from the humble spud to grapes used to make British wine, are at risk.
Their yields are also be affected by longer-lasting and more intense heatwaves, downpours and flooding in the future.
The summer’s extreme weather – which the Met Office said was made 30 times more likely by climate change – also hit carrots, with growers reporting yields down 25-30 per cent, and onions, which producers said were down 40 per cent.
As well as a drop in potato yields, farmers had problems with smaller and misshapen spuds – leaving the average British chip more than an inch smaller, the report said.
More than half of farmers in the UK say they have been affected by severe flooding or storms in the past decade, with climate change set to bring more record-breaking rainfall.
Shoppers could find British-grown potatoes and other fruit and vegetables harder to come by in the future as a result of the changing climate, the report warned.