DEFRA is the British government department that looks after farming, food, and the safety of what people eat, and that also works to protect the environment in the United Kingdom — countryside, animals, pollution, floods, and much of rural life. The letters stand for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. People say it as a word, roughly “DEF-ruh,” not usually letter by letter. You will see it in UK news: farm rules, food scares, animal disease, Brexit food checks, river pollution. It is a UK body only. Taiwan and the United States do not have a department called DEFRA; they have their own names for similar jobs. It is always written in capitals because it is an acronym, not an ordinary noun. In a sentence it behaves like a name: DEFRA said…, a DEFRA report…