Farming industry urgently needs workers to feed UK amid coronavirus crisis

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Britain's farms are facing potenitally devastating labour shortages amid the Covid19 epidemic

Gatwick airport has axed 200 jobs as travel demand plummeted, while Virgin Atlantic has asked staff to take eight weeks unpaid leave.

About 120,000 film industry workers have also already lost their jobs in Hollywood as a result of theHowever, many supermarkets have stepped up to provide temporary jobs for hospitality workers who have lost their jobs already. Aldi and Asda have announced they will be hiring 9,000 and 5,000 workers, respectively, to deal with extra demand, while Co-op bosses said on Thursday they would be needing 5,000 extra employees.A young family wearing face masks as they arrive at Manchester Piccadilly train station in Manchester city centre

Asda chief executive Roger Burnley said Asda would ‘play its part’ to help those affected by Covid-19.He said: ‘Never in my 30 years in retail have I ever felt so keenly the role played by supermarkets in our communities… during these difficult times everyone has to work together.’ In his daily press conference yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was ‘no reason’ for shops to be empty and slammed retailers accused of raising prices in order to make money from coronavirus.

 

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Lots of young british people available now to pick the crops, as it used to be, students during their summer breaks, let the farmers pay a fair wage instead of the low rates they paid people from impoverished countries

Should cancel Brexit then. Problem solved

This will be a world wide problem - not only the U.K.

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