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Significant workplace labour shortages persist crossed the country, posing a large situation to cultivation production, a starring assemblage authoritative has underlined.
Moschos Korasidis, wide manager astatine ETHEA, the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, estimated, successful comments to Kathimerini, that the cultivation assemblage is presently abbreviated of astir 70,000 workers.
The labour deficit, helium noted, will interaction various regions crossed the country, disrupting the harvest of cardinal crops, including olives, vegetables, and fruits.
The ETHEA authoritative said that the challenges posed by the labour shortage “will go progressively evident successful the coming days, peculiarly with the olive harvest, which has already been delayed owed to the drought.”
Given the existent workforce deficit, ensuing harvests, such arsenic strawberry picking, requiring galore workers owed to the much delicate quality of the fruit, will besides look issues, the ETHEA authoritative said.
The occupation appears to beryllium bigger connected the islands arsenic galore migrants and farmers person shifted to tourism, Korasidis pointed out.
Bilateral agreements signed with Egypt and Bangladesh to bolster the Greek farming sector’s workforce person so acold failed to nutrient desirable results, the ETHEA authoritative noted, attributing this nonaccomplishment to slow-moving bureaucratic procedures.
“Timing is critical, peculiarly successful the cultivation sector. There’s nary constituent successful a worker arriving adjacent a fewer days aft the harvest,” helium stressed.
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