Heineken UK has launched a regenerative agriculture programme that will pay British farmers a premium for malting barley grown using practices intended to improve soil health, biodiversity, and carbon retention, the brewer announced last week.
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The project of 'Cosecha de Galicia', a company linked to the Corporación Hijos de Rivera, is promoting the increase in the cultivation of malt barley in the area of A Limia, where the area dedicated to this crop has increased to 160 hectares in the region of A Limia, reaching 850 hectares promoted throughout the area in 2026, an increase of 88% in the last five years.