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Food producers are warning that worker shortages caused by a perfect storm of issues including brexit changes and the pandemic, could threaten availability at christmas. the government is facing growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the gap. our business correspondent katy austin reports. preparing these turkeys for christmas involves 100 extra workers who used to come in from eastern europe. because of brexit, we don't have that guaranteed labour that we've had for the past 30 years. the bigger companies that supply all the supermarkets, they had made the decision to cut th...

Worker shortages caused by a perfect storm of issues including brexit changes and the pandemic, could threaten availability at christmas. the government is facing growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the gap. our business correspondent katy austin reports. preparing these turkeys for christmas involves 100 extra workers who used to come in from eastern europe. because of brexit, we don't have that guaranteed labour that we've had for the past 30 years. the bigger companies that supply all the supermarkets, they had made the decision to cut their production by between 20% an...

Now, those people aren't living in areas where the manufacturing plants are, they don't have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn't want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there's now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there's everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they're 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shel...

Growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the gap. our business correspondent katy austin reports. preparing these turkeys for christmas involves 100 extra workers who used to come in from eastern europe. because of brexit, we don't have that guaranteed labour that we've had for the past 30 years. the bigger companies that supply all the supermarkets, they had made the decision to cut their production by between 20% and 25%, which is huge. so, there will absolutely be a shortage of quality british turkeys. other areas of food production are also having problems. a shortage of me...

From president biden that it withheld key information about how the coronavirus pandemic started. a report by us intelligence came to no firm conclusion as to where the virus originated but did say that china had hindered the investigations. china said it had been open and transparent and the us report lacked scientific credibility. food producers are warning that worker shortages caused by a perfect storm of issues — including brexit changes and the pandemic — could threaten availability at christmas. the government is facing growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the ga...