Summer fruit and salad growers in the UK are having difficulty recruiting pickers saying they don’t know if they will have enough migrant workers to harvest their crops.
About 80,000 seasonal workers a year pick and process British fruit and veg, most of them are from the EU, mainly Romania and Bulgaria.
British Summer Fruits, the body which represents soft fruit growers, says labour shortages are now the worst seen since 2004.
The weak pound which has reduced their workers’ earning power, as well as uncertainty over Brexit is being blamed.
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