Under quarantine to help contain COVID-19, migrant farm workers have fears of their own
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"I know there are citizens here who are worried foreign workers will come here with the virus, but I think the foreign workers are even more worried they will get the virus here,"
Behind schedule
Fernando Borja, the director of FERME, which manages the recruitment of foreign agricultural workers in the province, said that money comes as a relief to farmers already struggling with delays to the growing season.
"They have a lot of financial worries," he said.
"We are already three weeks behind, so that will have an impact on production."
Quebec usually hosts 16,000 migrant agricultural workers every growing season, employed on farms and in processing plants.
Workers from Guatemala still haven't arrived in Quebec and may not for several more weeks, due to travel restrictions in their home country.
"If we get 10,000 this year, we'll be happy," Borja said.