Business Green: Despite facing budget cuts of up to 50 per cent, Defra has laid out its Structural Reform Plan (SRP) for public comment. The plan underlines the department’s commitment to make British farming more competitive while making food production more sustainable, protecting biodiversity and boosting the green economy. "The food and farming industry, from the farm to the plate, has demonstrated its ability to withstand economic shocks and will be a pillar of the new green economy, so …