Farmers believe Scotland's crops and water are ideal for a market worth £ 367 million.

Now in the UK, sales of vegetable milk are in excess of £ 367 million, and the numbers continue to grow as more people refuse meat and dairy products.

Fife farmer Gordon Renny, who has been farming for 44 years, says Scotland is ideal for earning huge profits by making its own oat milk.

“Oats are a local crop in Scotland. We grow the best oats and get the purest water. We could be on the verge of something big, ”said the farmer who raised oats, this is southern gold, over the past three years.

Gordon recently returned from New Zealand, where he intends to build a plant for the production of oat milk for 20 million pounds. He said that a new variety of oats grown there was mixed with local water in oat drink tests. The result was like cow's milk.

Barbara Bolton, co-founder of Go Vegan Scotland, said that the benefits of oat milk will not only be financial: “A recent study by Harvard Law School showed that 50% of the crops in Scotland are designed to feed the animals that we then eat. The study also says that if we redirect crops to human food, it will reduce imports and emissions, as well as increase the amount of protein and a healthy diet. ”

But the secretary of the Scottish Dairy Cattle Association, Janette Mati, was careful. She stated: “We recognize that oat drink is a good product to use as a substitute, but should not be sold as milk.”