Northern Greece: Growers in desperate need of foreign hands
Farmers in northern Greece are desperately seeking help abroad to get their fruit and other crops picked. It seems that local youth are not inclined to do the farm work and the once-reliable Albanian farmhands now prefer to go for jobs in northern EU countries.
Farm unionists in the regional units of Imathia and Pella, where peach production dominates, claim the units need 30,000
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