Shortage of foreign fruit pickers endangering Wimbledon's strawberries and cream
- Date
2007-05-29
- Auteurs
National Post
- Titre du journal
National Post
- Page numbers
A13
- Texte complet
One of the most enduring symbols of the British summer -- strawberries and cream at Wimbledon's tennis tournament -- is threatened by a shortage of foreign fruit pickers. Migrant workers, who usually form the bulk of the labour force picking fruit, are now less keen to come and work, and horticulture is suffering. The National Farmers Union says there is a real danger summer crops will be left unharvested because migrant workers are going elsewhere. "There is no getting around the fact that manual harvesting is very physically demanding. You are out in the fields, bending down, and it might be raining or it might be really hot," said a spokeswoman for one farm. "And the fact is that strawberries have to be picked by hand, there is no machine that can do it."
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- Secteurs économiques
Agriculture and horticulture workers
- Pertinence géographique
Royaume-Uni
- Langues
Anglais