Shortage of pickers leaves 50 million apples rotting in UK orchards
A third of growers say they have been forced to leave 100 tons of fruit unpicked - around 16 million apples - because of a labour shortfall in part fuelled by Brexit uncertainty.
Ian Birrell
30d ago
Another Brexit triumph: Shortage of pickers leaves 50 million apples rotting in UK orchards
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Shortage of pickers leaves 50 million apples rotting in UK orchards. “enough apples to feed 44,000 children every day for a year. And that is just 30 per cent of the industry – it could be much more.”
Shortage of pickers leaves 50 million apples rotting in UK orchards | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail 2015: Hordes of European migrants are destroying the UK.
Daily Mail 2019: Help, our fruit is rotting on the trees!
