Flower farms begin downsizing workforce on rising fuel costs

Flower farms begin downsizing workforce on rising fuel costs

Flower farms across the country have embarked on job cuts due to the rising cost of fuel coupled by the Middle East crisis that has adversely affected shipping of flowers. According to the Agricultural Employers Association (AEA), the affected farms had involved the redundancy process due to the rising cost of production. This came as it emerged that cost of production in the multi-billion sector had risen by over 40 percent thanks to the fuel c…