Prof Jim Monaghan, from Harper Adams University, says farm labour costs are up by 20% in two years.
published by the National Farmers Union in April suggested overall production costs for growers has increased by as much as 27% in the past 12 months, with products such as tomatoes, broccoli, apples, and root vegetables most affected.
Prof Monaghan, the director of the university's Fresh Produce Research Centre, said Shropshire has a lot of lettuce, vegetable and soft fruit farms, which each needed hundreds of workers to harvest the crops. Prof Monaghan also said that since Brexit he was seeing fewer workers from European countries such as Poland, Bulgaria and Romania and more from Vietnam, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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