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Fruit picking

The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have "little effect"
Employment

The post-Brexit plan for non-EU fruit pickers will have "little effect"

A two-year trial will allow 2,500 pickers to enter the UK – just 10 per cent of the numbers required to stop unpicked fruit dying in Britain’s fields
Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam
University of Essex fruit picking
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Essex university has created a robot to help save fruit picking from a jam

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