ROSS-ON-WYE (REUTERS) - For almost 100 years, Mr Chris Chinn's family has farmed asparagus in the rolling hills of the Wye Valley in western England.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROSS-ON-WYE - For almost 100 years, Mr Chris Chinn's family has farmed asparagus in the rolling hills of the Wye Valley in western England.
At Mr Chinn's farm, which turns over more than £10 million a year, the workers pick the premium asparagus spears that can grow up to 20cm a day by hand. Sometimes they pick them twice a day before dispatching them to customers such as Marks and Spencer and Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco. "If we're 20 per cent short of people then we will harvest 20 per cent less asparagus," said Mr Chinn."UK agriculture's not a high-margin game, so 20 per cent less means we're in loss-making territory. Fifty per cent could sink us."
"They go somewhere which is most straightforward and any, even minor, hurdles you put in their way is just nudging them ever closer to going somewhere else," he said. "They don't know if they will be welcomed in the country, how long they may be able to stay, how they may be able to travel and what the future may hold," she said.British farms typically pay workers the national minimum wage of £7.83 an hour plus performance-related bonuses.
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