Coronavirus poses a threat to a major NC food producer: the immigrant farmworker
Story Date: 3/31/2020

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/30/20

Every year, North Carolina’s farmers work to keep the state’s title as the nation’s leader in growing tobacco and sweet potatoes. But this season, they’re battling the global coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus is affecting not only farmers, but their most important asset: the seasonal workforce imported from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.

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