1,200 Moroccan seasonal workers are expected in Corsica for the clementine harvest
The Upper Corsican clementine industry expects 1,200 seasonal workers who will arrive between October 6 and November 2 on commercial flights paid for by growers, announces the French Office for Immigration and Integration (Ofii).French agricultural producers are expecting some 1,200 Moroccan seasonal workers from October to participate in the clementine… The French Immigration and Integration Office (Ofii) is expecting 1,200 Moroccan seasonal workers from October to participate in the clementine harvests in Corsica. The announcement comes two months after the signing of an agreement between the Ofii, the FNSEA, the main French agricultural union and the Moroccan public body responsible for employment (Anapec). The workers must leave at the end of their contract and register to the French Office in Casablanca. Foreign seasonal workers have become an essential cog in the wheel of French agriculture since the lifting of Covid-19-related restrictions, and Ofii hired 900 Moroccan workers in October 2020 to “save the crops” of Corsican clementines.
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The Upper Corsican clementine industry expects 1,200 seasonal workers who will arrive between October 6 and November 2 on commercial flights paid for by growers, announces the French Office for Immigration and Integration (Ofii).
French agricultural producers are expecting some 1,200 Moroccan seasonal workers from October to participate in the clementine harvests in Corsica, the French Immigration and Integration Office (Ofii), which organizes their arrival, told AFP on Friday.
The announcement comes two months after the signing, in July, of an agreement between the Ofii, the FNSEA, the main French agricultural union and the Moroccan public body responsible for employment (Anapec), in order to “facilitate the hiring of Moroccan farm workers”. by French operators.
An approach that aims to “meet the needs of farmers who currently face a lack of candidates, (…) who question certain crops,” insisted the FNSEA.
The seasonal workers who arrive in Corsica from October after having obtained a temporary residence permit will have to “leave again at the end of the contract”, he explained to the Ofii, in charge of monitoring the return of these workers to Morocco, where they must register to the antenna of the French Office in Casablanca. The use of Moroccan seasonal workers has skyrocketed in recent years, underlines the head of Ofii: about 16,000 of them were employed in French agriculture in 2022, more than 10,000 in 2021, 6,300 in 2018.
Foreign seasonal workers, who have returned in large numbers since the lifting of Covid-19-related restrictions, are an essential cog in the wheel of French agriculture. In agricultural companies, this workforce has become so essential over the years that employers have asked the French authorities to organize exceptional airlifts at the worst moment of the pandemic. Thus, Ofii hired 900 Moroccan workers in October 2020 to “save the crops” of Corsican clementines.
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