Moratorium on travel may devastate UK fruit and vegetable growers.
While the United Kingdom could start sourcing more produce overseas, it is possible a slump in domestic productivity would “see some fluctuation in supply, and potential price increase for products on our shelves,” he added.
It’s a point echoed by industry chiefs. The “all or nothing” nature of farmwork doesn’t much appeal to U.K. job seekers, Jack Ward, the CEO of the British Growers Association, said. Conscious of these local limitations — and concerned for their fast-ripening early summer stock — some British producers have started flying in foreign laborers privately. Last week, 180 Romanian workers touched down at the London Stansted Airport, before being whisked by bus to farms around the country.
“Where will we be in terms of lockdown by, say, the 1st of July or the 1st of August [when] we’re still going flat out harvesting … and the people who volunteered at the start of the season have returned to their original jobs?” Ward asked.Even prior to COVID-19, the sector was facing serious recruitment challenges. With improving economic prospects back home, fewer Eastern Europeans — particularly young people, those best suited to agricultural work — were applying for seasonal labor in the U.
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