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Monday, 1 February, 1999, 19:45 GMT

Woman's Hour meets female farmers in trouble

As other areas of this News Online special section show farming is in trouble - deep trouble.

Farmers say current income levels were last seen in the 1930s.

Prompted by a World Rural Women's day in London in early October, Radio 4 magazine programme Woman's Hour recently looked at the plight of two women farmers in the UK who are suffering from different ends of the same problem.


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		BBC News Philippa Dolley talks to Fiona Thompson, a tenant farmer in Northumberland, and Ann Harris, a pig farmer in East Sussex.

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