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Polish Workers Leave German Farmers For English Farmers - Poland loses.

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Warsaw, Poland 23 April 2007 German farmers are short workers as Polish workers leave them and go to England for better pay. Poland continues to lose its working population as it supplies workers for both countries.

With workers from Poland restricted to working in Germany only four months, German farmers have a basic problem with being competitive with England as it is.

But now the farmers in England are paying higher wages and German farmers are having difficulty harvesting the spring crops. Typical of a widespread problem, one asparagus farmer in German reports that he needs at least 50 more Polish workers now to gather his crop or he will not be able to get it out of the fields in time.

But since Polish workers are in short supply, the Germans are trying to recruit Rumanians.

With pay over 7 Euro per hour for farm workers in Western Europe, three to four times as high as pay for the same work in Poland, there is a lot of incentive for Poles to go West.

And they are.

The net result is that Polish farmers are short laborers.

So the Polish Government is making arrangements for workers from Ukraine and other Eastern countries to come into Poland for temporary farm work.

With shortages this early in the season, the shortages in Poland as workers head West for the fall harvest may be severe unless Polish farmers can easily attract people from the East.

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