Fruit picking
The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have “little effect”
The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have “little effect”
A two-year trial will allow 2,500 pickers to enter the UK – just 10 per cent of the numbers required to stop unpicked fruit dying in Britain’s fields
Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam
Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam
As reported in The Big Issue, Brexit has seasonal EU workers and Brits are unwilling to get their hands dirty – but robots are being developed to fill the gap