Faversham and mid Kent MP Hugh Robertson is meeting leading representatives and research organisations in the region's top and soft fruit industry today (December 21).

Robertson, who is secretary of the Parliamentary British Fruit Industry Group, will hear presentations from the National Farmers' Union, English Apples and Pears, Meisosis, HDC, HRI, Apple and Pear Research Council, the National Fruit Show society, Adas and the East Malling Trust for Horticulture research at Bradbourne House, East Malling.

He will then be going on to hear about the production of alternative crops producing oils for pharmaceutical and industrial use at Botanix, in Paddock Wood.

To attend, call David Butterworth, NFU South East fruit adviser on 01732 847300.