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Originally Posted by mapuc
Some of you mentioned some weeks ago, there could be shortage of food, especially from our farmers, because the borders is closed and those thousand of workers from Poland, Romania and other Eastern countries who use to take the trip to countries like Germany to work in the farming area which is impossible due to those closed border.
I forgot to mention when this was posted in this thread, that the Swedish Primeminister have said to Swedish tv.
- "There are thousands of strong young men and women who have, because of this Corona crisis lost their job
They could do the same job in our field, as workers from Poland and other Eastern country use to do each year "
And he's correct, as long there's labour who can do those jobs there's not really any shortage of food....not yet.
Markus
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He misses one thing, though. For exmaple over here in Germany many German students enthusiastically ran to the farmers and volunteered for example for harvesting asparagus.
Have you ever tried that yourself? I can assure you, its no pleasure, but quite brutal if you are not used to it by many weeks doing it.
Its no pleasure. Very serious back pain, and slow working speed. Most people quit by the end of the first week, and they are ruinous for the farmers, because they want to get paid, but can harvest only a fraction of the asparagus that foreign season workers can harvest with their many years of routine and hardened backs. The difference is the Ger,man harvests one basket, and the skilled season worker in that time harvests 6, 7, 8 baskets, if not more.
Many farmers do not even try to find German helpers, even send them away, being taught by past experiences that were not worth it.
To huge parts, this is just political opportunism by desktop geniuses who do not know what they are talking of. Farmers do not just need hands wanting to help. They need hands whose owners have some experience and know what to do with them. Else it does not pay off financially, because who works for free anyway, even more so hard work on the fields...? A farmer who must pay a wage must see ther work result correpsnding to it, else its a loss, and its cheaper to just plow the field and fruits under.
What indeed gets done over here.