16/6/22 - Seasonal workers and salmon farming
As workers from Nepal and Indonesia step in to ease the shortage of labour in UK fields, we hear if the 10,000 new visas the governmentβs promised for seasonal workers are enough.
One of the biggest challenges for the UK's fruit and vegetable farms is finding a workforce. In recent years UK farmers have relied heavily on labour from eastern Europe, but leaving the EU means those numbers are now restricted and the war in Ukraine is having a further impact. So the search for seasonal workers is being widened, with people coming from Nepal and Indonesia.
And all this week on Farming Today we're talking about salmon. We hear about a Scottish-based company hoping to open Scotlandβs first βsemi-closedβ fish farm, which they say could reduce pollution and sea lice in their salmon.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Audio by Caitlin Hobbs
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