Did a byzantine application process make it almost IMPOSSIBLE to join the Land Army? Volunteer was made to film seven interview answers – then got offered farm a five-hour drive away

An infuriatingly complicated application process has today been blamed for the failure of the Government’s Pick for Britain scheme that succeeded in recruiting only 200 UK volunteers out of 50,000 applications.     Applicants claim to have faced a wall of bureaucracy which saw furloughed workers asked to film videos about their team working skills to secure a manual labour spot picking fruit and vegetables from the ground.  One Yorkshire company director turn down two job offers because they were both at farms five-hour drives away – in Perthshire, Scotland and Dorset. Some 49,800 applicants have decided against joining the Land Army and only about 6,000 have completed the video interviews for the scheme that was intended to replace the influx of immigrant workers who usually harvest summer Britain’s food crop.  It raises questions over how farmers are going to reap their crops when that influx of foreign workers usually seen at this time of year has been cut off due to the virus. Hundreds of Romanian fruit pickers have already been flown to the UK on special charter flights and the demand for foreign pickers looks set to grow after the failure of the Land Army recruitment drive. Fruit and… Read full this story

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