COVID-19 and the national quarantine are also impacting the Cuyo producing region in terms of the labor force. Companies that have mechanical olive or grape harvesters are able to work without major inconveniences, but in some cases, farms that depend on manual harvesting. Many inconveniences with workers who cannot pass from one province to the other are being reported. In the case of grapes, there were problems with manual harvesting because, in addition to the precautions that allow, for example, transporting only half of the workers in a bus, some provinces apply a two-week quarantine to the growers who come from other jurisdictions.
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