"The right trade deal" with the European Union is the top general election priority identified by a farming union.

The NFU Cymru has released 10 key policy points it wants addressed in the election.

It is urging its members to press candidates for the June 8 election on the points.

It’s 10 policy asks are:

• Securing the right trade deal with the European Union

• Maintain current levels of investment for farming in Wales

• Clear and unambiguous country of origin labelling

• Public procurement contracts should prioritise Welsh produce

• The Groceries Code Adjudicator must protect farmers from unfair practices in the food chain

• Development and deployment of science and technology must be a priority

• Sound science must be at the heart of decision making

• The next government must ensure the sector has access to the labour it requires

• Accelerated roll out of broadband and mobile coverage to all rural areas

• Effective efforts to tackle rural crime

NFU Cymru President Stephen James said: "As the industry likely to be most affected by exiting the European Union, the upcoming General Election is the most important in a generation in farming terms. It is vital that the next UK Government recognises the importance of farming to Wales and ensure that the industry is afforded the opportunity to prosper.

“We have put together our 10 key policy asks to ensure that prospective candidates understand the issues that matter to farmers across Wales. If these key asks are not acted upon they could hamper the industry’s ability to continue to play an important role for Wales from an economic, environmental, social and cultural perspective.

“As candidates head out on doorsteps across the country to sell themselves as the political representative for their area, our members across the length and breadth of Wales will be challenging candidates on how they can press UK Government to help ensure a productive, profitable and progressive future for farming.

“NFU Cymru is committed to working with the new UK Government to ensure that our 10 key policy asks are effectively addressed.”

The Farmers' Union of Wales has launched its manifesto for the general election and said it wants to ensure whoever forms the next government understands the significant challenges and opportunities that Welsh family farms face and the industry is recognised as distinct from English farming.FUW President Glyn Roberts said: "This is an unusual election - perhaps a single issue election - and unlike any that we will have faced before. "Brexit will dominate and we need to ensure that whoever forms the next Government understands the significant challenges and opportunities that Welsh family farms face. And that they also recognise that Wales - and Welsh farming - is not England and English farming. "The FUW firmly believes that the next UK Government must take the opportunity to shape domestic policies fit for a UK outside the EU and that those policies must respect the current balances of power between devolved nations, while also taking into account the concerns regarding disproportionate EU rules, regulations and bureaucracy which led to so many voting to leave the EU."Since 1978 the FUW has been formally recognised by governments as exclusively representing the views of farmers in Wales. We have no external influences from outside Wales, are the independent voice of Wales’ family farms. "Therefore, the FUW is committed to lobbying all those in Westminster to ensure that Welsh agriculture and Wales’ family farms receive the attention and respect that they warrant, for the period of the next Parliament and beyond – for the sake of all our futures."