date:Oct 18, 2021
A pilot scheme using a robot to take the hard graft out of market gardening could be a solution to labor shortages in the sector. The machine in question, which runs on rails in a greenhouse tunnel and is driven by dedicated software, can be adapted to do many of the repetitive tasks needed to grow fruit and vegetables commercially.
Last year, national statistics agency Insee included market gardeners in its survey of farming and found the number of people employed in the industry had dropped f