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Brexit has caused massive hole in numbers of fruit pickers, farmers say

“From the end of June, people who haven’t got pre-settled status, at least, can’t work. “We are not talking about a few tens of thousands, we are talking hundreds of thousands of people less to work in the UK. “That’s a massive hole”. Two years ago, Taylor’s company received about 20 applications a day from people wanting to come to the UK to work picking fruit, but this year it is just two a day. “We are right at the brink now,” he said. Winterwood Farms Ltd runs more than 2000 hectares of farmland across the UK, France, Poland and South Africa, packaging and marketing fruits to retailers and supermarkets. They are the largest growers of blueberries in both Europe and Africa.

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By Henry Sandercock2021-05-27T10:45:00+01:00 Securing visa permits is understood to have proved problematic in Bulgaria, where the UK visa office has been opening for just three hours every fortnight Visa permit challenges and a lack of UK-based labour have provoked fears that fruit and veg grow will be short of workers at the beginning of the season. With harvesting set to get underway in the next two to three weeks, the sector was “very concerned”, a senior industry source revealed. Securing visa permits is understood to have proved problematic in at least one country, with the UK visa office in Bulgaria – a key country for recruiting seasonal workers – open for just three hours every fortnight.

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