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Food miles and fruit pickers
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Food miles and fruit pickers
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A quite bonkers situation is highlighted today:
Migrant cap 'will hit fruit crop':
Thousands of pounds worth of strawberries could be lost
Much of this year's strawberry crop will not be harvested because of a cap on seasonal workers entering the UK, the National Farmers' Union has warned.
The NFU says the cap, which limits the number of non-EU citizens entering the country, is causing a shortage of fruit-pickers.
Farmers are calling for the government to raise the cap from its current limit of just over 16,000.
The Home Office says farms should recruit from closer to home.
Farmers say they have found it increasingly difficult to recruit seasonal workers since the expansion of the EU in 2004, which gave membership to countries including Poland.
So, by preventing the free movement of people, we increase the need to move goods around the world that could be just as well produced at home. We'll presumably have to see more Spanish strawberries in the shops because we won't allow people to come and pick English ones. And yet as I write here from my hall of residence flat, I hear our domestic staff bustling about getting ready to welcome hundreds of youngsters from overseas to learn a bit of English for a few weeks, which will no doubt be replicated at universities up and down the country.
Bonkers.
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