Why few Britons pick fruit on our farm | Letter

For distancing reasons we are minimising the number of people on the campsite so only have room for those who have worked for us before, but we are keen to recruit local people and have been in touch with many, writes Andrew Chesson

Re your article ('Just not true' we're too lazy for farm work, say frustrated UK applicants, 20 April), we run a small soft fruit farm in Kent and have had about 700 applications for 50 places. There are a number of reasons we are not taking all UK workers.

Our season runs from May to October, but many UK applicants will go back to their old jobs as soon as they start up again, leaving us with not enough labour to pick the crop.