Spanish Farms Seek Workers from Ecuador, Honduras for Berry Harvest, Bypassing Morocco

After Riobamba and Azogues (Ecuador), a delegation of Spanish agricultural organizations is currently in Quito to recruit seasonal workers who will work from January to late June 2022 in the berry cultivation fields in the Andalusian province of Huelva, reports Ecuador Times. Their work will consist of harvesting strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and citrus fruits.

"We are in Ecuador to select the workers who will be part of a pilot experience; it is the first time that in Huelva we will have seasonal workers from these countries," said Manuel Piedra, Secretary of Mobility and Migration Policies of UPA Andalusia and Secretary General of this organization, specifying that workers will be recruited in Ecuador and Honduras. They will be fully aware of the employer who hires them, the housing conditions and the economic conditions.

This pioneering initiative in the Andalusian autonomous community, explained Piedra, is carried out in response to the "request made by UPA Huelva for a year and a half to the General Directorate of Migration" to open recruitment to other countries, which until now had been focused on Morocco. The Madrid government had signed agreements involving the recruitment of 500 people.