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 Ukrainian seasonal workers and a limited number of foreign worker visas.
The government said it would be increasing the number of visas issued.
Mr Allen, of Portwood Farm, near Attleborough, said he had decided not to plant any more asparagus.
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