Jersey potato farmers fly in workers from the Philippines
Workers from the Philippines have been recruited to work on farms in Jersey to plug the gap left in the wake of Brexit. Growers had feared that Jersey Royal potatoes would be left to rot in the fields after farm workers, many of whom were Polish, abandoned the island after the EU referendum. Farmers say the void has finally been filled by Filipino workers who were 'keeping the farming industry going' on the Channel Island. Filipino workers at work on Manor Farm, which specialises in growing Jersey Potatoes Christine Hellio, who runs Manor Farm farm, said she now employed four workers f...
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