Romanian fruit pickers flown to UK amid crisis in farming sector
Written by Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent
Charter flights organised after appeal fails to recruit enough British workers
Romanian workers are being flown in to help feed Britain amid a continuing recruitment crisis in the agriculture sector.
Special charter flights have started flying into the UK from Bucharest with desperately needed workers for British farms that risk losing their crop of early summer fruit and vegetables because of the coronavirus lockdown.
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