Minette Batters, president of the NFU said that the war in Ukraine had focused attention on the importance and fragility of food security, both at home and abroad.”
The NFU has called for a review of the immigration system to help bring in 10,000 more seasonal workers and for urgent action to prioritise gas for food production and make it easier to use organic fertilisers as an alternative to those produced using fossil fuels.”
Ukrainians have made up about 60 percent of workers taking up seasonal visas to pick and pack produce since the UK left the EU.
