Brexit: Vegetable producer says labour shortage means food is being thrown away | BBC News
“One of the country’s biggest vegetable producers says it’s losing thousands of pounds a week and having to throw away food due to a labour shortage. The workforce at Alfred G. Pearce, based near King’s Lynn, Norfolk, is 20% to 30% down on previous years.”
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The company, which is based across three sites and grows 60,000 tonnes of carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, onions and butternut squash per year, works with major food distributors and supermarkets …
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