British farms learn to work with fewer seasonal migrants
Better training, new crop varieties and nimbler robots help to get the harvest in
IT IS fruit-picking time on Britain’s farms. Harvesting soft fruit is in full swing; shortly it will be the turn of apples and pears. Seldom has the season been watched so closely, as the agriculture industry has become a bellwether for how British business as a whole is faring as the country negotiates its exit from the European Union.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Picking winners”
Britain August 19th 2017
- At last Britain begins to spell out its Brexit aims
- An anti-Islam campaigner vies to lead Britain’s populist right-wing party
- From A* to grade nine: England reforms its GCSE exams
- Britons mellow on migration
- British farms learn to work with fewer seasonal migrants
- Chimes gone by
- How London threw £46m into the Thames
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