Cropdesk Technologies Limited

**The UK farming industry employs up to 90,000 seasonal workers** at peak, to grow and harvest its crops. Employees converge on farms from all over the world, and a high proportion will move from farm to farm over a 6 to 8-month period. The transient nature of such employees can make it very difficult for an employer to confidently control the risk of a C...

**Specific need:** T**he UK farming industry requires up to 90,000 seasonal workers** at peak, to grow and harvest its crops. The labour to grow our crops has, for the last 30 years, traditionally come from Eastern Europe, as seasonal migrant workers. COVID-19 restrictions on movement of people and global lockdown of transport infrastructure currently pre...

There is increasing consumer and retailer demand for high-quality UK-grown strawberries, and this will increase further post-BREXIT as retailers favour British produce. Currently, c. 30% (Defra) of strawberries consumed in the UK are imported, and so there is a great opportunity to displace these, often inferior, imports during the home-grown season and b...