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Fruit picking stat 16:15 - Apr 28 with 1845 views

This can't be right surely? I wonder what this will do to shopping as this progresses if it's in any way indicative of supply chains and employment.

She's an author not a journo as I'd assumed which makes it even more bizarre to put out there if unverified.

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Fruit picking stat on 09:58 - Apr 29 with 249 views

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Fruit picking stat on 17:28 - Apr 28 by eireblue
Yep.There was a farmer on Radio4 farming today, mentioning a couple of things. He has about 70% retention of people that come from Eastern Europe year on year. So he had a reliable and reasonably consistent workforce. Training is required. Training takes time, since pickers will be around farm machinery. He can’t afford to train people that will not stay around for the entire picking season.

Training isn't just about the machinery and health and safety.

Fruit is no good if it is badly damaged by the pickers and worse still if that is rotting in with the good stuff that had been picked. Knowing which fruit to pick, how to handle it etc is all important.

I sometimes see examples of fruit in the supermarket where it clearly wasn't well picked - look for the clear fingerprint bruises on apples for example.

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Fruit picking stat on 12:05 - Apr 29 with 222 views

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I was listening to R4 discussing this today, people are interested until they find out how far away the farms are from their city homes.

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