Okanagan fruit growers happy B.C.’s foreign worker quarantine program is ending
The Okanagan Valley has seen a massive shortage of workers in the past couple of years, leading to large“Everything depends on the workers and the weather,” said Karma Gill, owner of Farming Karma Fruit Company.
“The farmer is always hoping the weather looks good, everything looks good, and now it might be a heavy cherry crop again, we need the workers.”Gill said the lifting of the quarantine program is welcome, but he would still like to see a more streamlined system in place.“The program is hard for the farmer, the farmers need the easier program. More workers are needed,” said Gill.
“The BC government made the right call in centralizing quarantining. It allowed us to really minimize outbreaks these past couple seasons. The vaccines have been quite readily available, I do understand the decision to stop the quarantine at this point. It does make sense,” said BC Cherry Association’s president, Sukhpal Bal.
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