0 all the businesses that are involved in making goods or providing services, from producing the materials to selling the product --
Its chain of production includes more than 80,000 agricultural and livestock providers.
If it is not, the consequences are potentially very serious and in any event the full chain of production and distribution will take some time to return to normal.
Potentially the situation remains serious, and, after what has already occurred, it may be some time before the full chain of production and distribution returns to normal.
I can think of several machines that can be used as isolated units, but which, by simple devices, can be easily linked up into a chain of production processes.
That passes along the chain of production, refinery and distribution, ending in a sale to the consumer at the petrol pump.
Punish the upland farmer by neglect and the whole chain of production is affected.
Every step of the industry's chain of production is regulated, 'from farm to fork' so to speak.
We cannot afford to have the transport machine as the weak link in our chain of production.
