months ago at the peak of the harvest season. so our farmers lost all their harvest from, pomegranates, to wheat, to rice to cotton. massive financial losses. then we had a period where the fighting started and in areas like kandahar. at the moment, afghanistan is bankrupt, it is like no money, all of the reserves you know is basically freezed by the united states of america and we don t know what the former government may or may not have left. so this is an incredibly difficult and different challenge for the taliban than the one that they were coping with over the last 20 years, which was they were launching a bloody insurgency. tell us about the people, the
the manufacturing plants are, they don t have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn t want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they re 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then, the big concern- ongoing from that is christmas. he supports calls for a temporary visa scheme to bring in food workers and lorry drivers from europe. isn t it more important to build a sustainable workforce from within the uk, and ultimately pay them more? i m more than happy to do that. but if the era of cheap
food industry trade bodies warn there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they re 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then, the big concern- ongoing from that is christmas. he supports calls for a temporary visa scheme to bring in food workers and lorry drivers from europe. isn t it more important to build a sustainable workforce from within the uk, and ultimately pay them more? i m more than happy to do that. but if the era of cheap labour is over, so tool is the era of cheap food. the government says the supply chain is resilient and it wants to see employers invest in the domestic workforce.
now, those people aren t living in areas where the manufacturing plants are, they don t have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn t want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they re 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then, the big concern- ongoing from that is christmas. he supports calls for a temporary visa scheme to bring in food workers and lorry drivers from europe. isn t it more important to build a sustainable workforce from within the uk, and ultimately pay them more? i m more than happy to do that.
as they normally would. these pigs are backing up on farms to the tune of around 70,000, and that s increasing by 15,000 a week. the impact is on the welfare of those animals that are kept on farms and also on the profitability of the farmers looking after those animals. food industry trade bodies say there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants, but here at this distribution centre they re 20% short of staff. the boss says a real crisis is brewing. it s going to get worse before it gets better, definitely. - and what the whole industry is really concerned - about is from september, i when the schools come back and the office workers come back, i and we re going to start seeing more supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then the big concern ongoing