Workers are being offered £30 an hour to pick broccoli in Lincolnshire – the equivalent of £62,000 a year – amid a severe staff shortage.
TH Clements and Son, of Bennington, near Boston, is also on the lookout for cabbage pickers for its fields at the same rate.
The firm will pay £240 a day and the roles at the farmland in Lincolnshire, near Boston, are also all-year round work, Hull Live is reporting.
The family owned firm, which also supplies Brussels sprouts and cauliflowers to major food suppliers and supermarkets, has been on a major recruitment drive.
In a post on social media, TH Clements said: “We are looking for Field Operatives to harvest our broccoli. Excellent piecework rates with potential to earn up to £30 per hour and all year round work available.”
Anyone interested in the work can find the offer on the company’s Facebook site.
Robert Newbery, regional director of the National Farmers’ Union, told the Mirror: “Brexit is certainly having an impact.
“The people that could move freely within Europe before now can’t.”
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