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Cornwall’s Varfell Farms doesn’t have enough pickers as Cornish workers don’t last.
Fields of flowers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are being left to rot in Cornwall.
The world's largest daffodil grower says it has been forced to let hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of flowers rot – as it can't get pickers due to Brexit.
In a “normal year” around 150 pickers would harvest the daffodils, but this year they have just 30.
Brexit has contributed to a shortage of flower pickers in the UK, a bulb grower has said.
A Lincolnshire farming business has blamed Brexit for a lack of flower pickers.
A major daffodil grower in the fens say they only have a fifth of their usual number of pickers this year because of Brexit.
Today marks 100 days since Brexit properly happened in the UK - with seamless trade and EU rules replaced by a weighty trade deal.
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Flower growers fear end of the UK’s £100m industry as Covid and border restrictions lead to lack of seasonal workers.
UK immigration curbs on pickers has benefited Irish growers in a seasonal industry.