The United Kingdom government has announced plans to offer 43,000 seasonal worker visas to the agricultural sector and extend the visa program for an additional five years, until 2029.
This decision follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the largest-ever round of farming grants at the NFU Conference, with £427 million available to farmers, doubling investment in productivity schemes.
The government aims to address food supply chain shortages by investing in technology to reduce reliance on migrant labor, targeting the horticulture sector and adding 2,000 visas to the poultry sector in 2025.
Environment Secretary Steve Barclay stated, “We have a world-class food and drink sector, and the measures announced today will strengthen this by boosting funding for the cutting-edge technology that will reduce reliance on migrant labour in the long term.”
Barclay added, “Businesses do best when they can plan effectively for the future, which is why we’ve extended the seasonal worker visa route until 2029 to give farmers and growers the certainty they need to thrive.”
This is a working government. Securing the future. Enough food chain longevity, unlike our own country. Kudos to the UK government.
This is great encouragement ooh atleast it will help..
Interesting this is a good development
Nice one uk government abeg make them still dey help us for this country o
This UK government is not as if they like us but because of our government failure and because we ourselves don’t have a choice
Wow
This is so good to see
This is a good development. I love it
This is what our government should be doing instead of allowing our people to travel down to where they are not really welcomed
Yes our country should take responsibility of this
That is a good one from them
Very nice development, this sounds so great.