British Strawberries are Big Business

Jul 03, 2014, 06:42 PM

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The Wimbledon Tennis Championships attract some half a million people over the course of a fortnight - and for many of them sampling the famous strawberries and cream is a must. The strawberry industy is worth $1.4 billion a year to the British economy so we sent our reporter Elizabeth Hotson to a farm in the Garden of England, Kent, to find out what goes into growing the perfect specimen.