An acute shortage of abattoir workers has left up to 150,000 pigs backed up on farms and facing a costly cull
London - Britain’s pig farmers on Friday warned of a pork crisis unless the government urgently eased an acute shortage of abattoir workers that has left up to 150,000 pigs backed up on farms and facing a costly cull.
The National Pig Association said the industry was hiking wages and trying to increase training and automation after the pandemic combined with Britain’s new post-Brexit immigration rules to hit an industry that has always struggled for labour. The association, which urged the government to ease immigration rules for six to nine months to tide the industry over, said talks with the government had reached an impasse.
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