A fruit picker sorts fresh raspberries at a farm owned by DriscollÕs, a California-based seller of berries, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues in Zapotlan el Grande, in Jalisco state, Mexico April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Fernando Carranza
The coronavirus pandemic has put a huge strain on the complex chains that usually bring food to people’s tables, forcing suppliers to adjust their normal routines to cope with snags to harvesting, transport and distribution. “As we are eliminating middlemen in the distribution chain, both farmers and consumers are happy,” said Sahyadri Chairman Vilas Shinde.
Green Gold Farms in Mexico, a supplier to Driscoll’s, has hired factory workers like Omar Cortes Arteaga, who was furloughed from an automotive plant. He works at Green Gold’s berry farm in Jalisco state, where labourers wear masks and have temperature checks before going into the fields. France has mobilised 15,000 French workers idled by the crisis so far to help offset a potential shortfall of 200,000 foreign labourers this spring.
Street markets shouldn't have been closed since fresh moving air is a safer environment for shoppers then stores with multiple surfaces which virus can live on and recirculation of infected air
Labor? Your talking immigrants which isn't needed...the falsity that Americans won't do these jobs is propaganda to import cheaper immigrants and encourage Americans to live on the welfare state...if Americans had to feed their children and themselves, they would do any job.
Like....farm to table?
capitalism at it's best.
Let's hope we're talking about plant-based farming here, which of course I'm happy to support. So sick of the others whining rather than transitioning.