Source: Brendaly Vega Davis, SAMPSON INDEPENDENT, 3/24/20


North Carolina agriculture could struggle mightily due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, notably with the State Department recently announcing that the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and all U.S. consulates in Mexico have canceled routine immigrant and non-immigrant visa services. Senator Brent Jackson said the state’s agriculture industry relies heavily on foreign labor. The H-2A agricultural visa program and other non-immigrant agricultural worker visas bring in a lot of labor that farmers need.

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