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schema:articleBody	British farmers are to begin flying in seasonal workers from eastern Europe during the coronavirus pandemic, a flight charter service said Wednesday, amid recruitment fears in the agricultural sector. A flight carrying workers from Romania is to land Thursday at Stansted airport, north of London, paid for by a British fruit and vegetable farm. "A flight coming from Romania will arrive on Thursday at London Stansted with 180 passengers," a spokesman from Air Charter Service told AFP. The farm paid up to £250 pounds (290 euros, $315) per seat, twice the average price. After their arrival the passengers are to be transported to an undisclosed location. The BBC reported Wednesday that as many as five other such flights would take place over the next few days. According to the British Growers' Association (BGA), UK farms need 70,000 seasonal workers each year from around March to December. Ninety percent of these, said the BGA, were from overseas, primarily Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine. "These people come year after year and, in some respects, their financial well-being depends on them coming for these jobs," said Jack Ward, chief executive at the BGA. The National Farmers' Union said pickers were needed now for asparagus and soft fruits such as raspberries and strawberries. However, the plan to fly in workers during a global pandemic does not seem to have gone down well with Romanian officials. Dan Mihalache, Romania's Ambassador to the UK told AFP: "If it was organised, it was done outside official channels. "The Romanian state and the Embassy had no involvement... I think such movements are not opportune in this period. But we can't control private initiatives. "In my opinion, we shouldn't transport an important number of people from or towards Romania." Since the start of the pandemic, Romania, which has a population of 19 million, has lost more than a million jobs. dmh/wai
schema:headline	Romanian farm workers to be flown to UK during crisis
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schema:datePublished	2020-04-15 (xsd:date)
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