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Podcast special: Is British farming fit for the future?

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How Is the Government Going to Deal With the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Shortage?

We've always had a seasonal agricultural work escape tince the teco world war. It was judged no longer to be needed due to freedom of movement. But obviesly, now we've left the european union, clearly we need a seasonal agricultural worker scheme again. That's why we immediately openedpilots for the first couple of years. We've just expanded the scheme is now annual scheme. Wich hust expanded it to forty thousand because we judge that's what's needed in this current year and you kow, if necessary, we would extend it.

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