Spain: UPA Granada studies contracting in countries like Ecuador for the asparagus campaign

Published 2022년 6월 2일

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The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) in Granada is contemplating contracting labor from Ecuador for the next green asparagus campaign due to a lack of local labor in the province. This issue has been exacerbated by the pandemic, making it more difficult for agricultural entrepreneurs to hire labor. Despite efforts to address this issue, UPA Granada has not been able to find solutions and is urging the Administration to facilitate the hiring of workers at origin to avoid potential problems.

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GRANADA, June 2 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) in Granada is studying contracting in countries like Ecuador for the next green asparagus campaign, since labor in the province is "a luxury" and businessmen have "serious difficulties in harvesting their crops due to lack of laborers". This has been indicated in a press release after the general secretary of UPA Granada, Nicolás Chica, accompanied by the head of the Huelva organization, Manuel Piedra, has met with the sub-delegate of the Government in the province of Granada, Inmaculada López Calahorro , in order to explain the initiative that he launched for the Huelva strawberry campaign and that "it has had such good results". "Businessmen need solutions to the problem of the lack of manpower. We already had in mind to open contracting at origin and we asked the Administration a few months ago so that they would make bureaucratic procedures more flexible in order to be able to count on laborers from other ...

Source: europapress