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In 2019, the value of the UK’s ornamental horticulture trade, which includes cut flowers, was put at £76 million. One plant nursery, the Yorkshire-based Johnsons of Whixley, has claimed it fears losing as much as £500,000 a year due to the soil ban in particular hitting sales to Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland trade barriers have come up since the country has remained part of the bloc’s plant health system, the BBC reports, even though it is part of the UK. Boris Johnson at a tree nursery in 2019 (Image: Neil Hall / WPA Pool / Getty) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told Express.co.uk this is because, under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the island of Ireland is treated as “a single epidemiological unit”.

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