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AG Recruitment loses licence to sponsor migrant agricultural workers
AG Recruitment, which had brought more than 1,450 Indonesian nationals to work on farms in the UK last year, has lost its licence as a sponsor of workers on the seasonal workers’ visa (‘SWV’) scheme for agricultural workers. The decision to revoke the licence followed accounts of some workers arriving in the UK with up to £5,000 of debt to brokers and in some
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Are We Nearing Another Farm Crisis?
With the current farm bill expiring in 2023, rising inflation and the global supply chain issues the agriculture industry is facing, are we nearing a farm crisis like we or perhaps another “too big to fail” scenario as we saw in 2008? Whether another crisis is coming or not, farmers are facing obstacles that lenders can help them overcome. Farmers
Continue reading What about the health of agricultural workers?
The people who work to grow and harvest the food we eat play a key role in ensuring our good health and proper nutrition. And yet they often do so at the expense of their own health, owing to a combination of factors: the arduous nature of the work, the difficulties accessing the health system for the most precarious workers,
Continue reading The extent and makeup of the American agricultural labor force
For a considerable time, the agricultural labor force in the United States has been composed of two distinct categories of workers: (1) self-employed farm operators and their families, and (2) hired laborers. Between 1950 and 1990, there was a long-term fall in both types of employment as mechanization increased agricultural output and decreased the need for labor. The employment rate
Continue reading Farmer, from near Attleborough, loses £50,000 over shortage of workers
The government is in “cuckoo world” when it talks of increasing produce, said a farmer who has lost £50,000 of asparagus due to a shortage of workers. Norfolk farmer Andy Allen could not get enough pickers and so a 10-acre field has been left unpicked. Farmers have been hit by the loss of EU workers after Brexit, the loss of
Continue reading EU project is helping farmers fight labor shortage with robotics
In the European Union, one of the most severe challenges within the agriculture sector is the cost and scarcity of labor. In fact, throughout the pandemic, growers across the region have been either complaining about higher labor costs, or limited access to it altogether. Therefore, to protect the food supply chains in Europe, a new EU project is accelerating the
Continue reading EU agriculture statistics: subsidies, jobs, production (infographic)
Agriculture is an important industry for all EU countries and they all receive EU funds through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). These funds support farmers directly through the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and rural areas, climate action and the management of natural resources through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. The agriculture industry supported 9,476,600 jobs in 2019 and
Continue reading Canada’s agriculture statistics, Canadian food industry statistics
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometers. If we look at Canada’s agriculture statistics, Canadian food industry statistics reveal that Wheat is the most cultivated crop, and some other crops are oil seeds. The Canadian foodservice
Continue reading For the job of plucking cabbage from the farm, this company giving a package of ₹ 63 lakh.
Harvesting is an important work in the fields. A UK firm is grappling with a severe staff shortage due to Corona and Brexit broke .. To overcome this shortage, massive recruitments have been released. The firm is offering 62 thousand pounds i.e. 63 lakh rupees annually to its employees. Due to the huge salary, these jobs are luring people. Actually
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