Finns triple berry picking for sale amid foreign labour shortage

Finns triple berry picking for sale amid foreign labour shortage

Domestic berry pickers in Finland collected nearly three times more wild berries for commercial sale in 2024 than in previous years, according to industry estimates. The increase followed a sharp drop in the number of foreign pickers. Only around 800 arrived from Thailand, compared to several thousand in earlier years. They entered Finland late in the harvest season due to changes in immigration rules, missing the peak period for cloudberries an…

Last year, there were fewer foreign wild berry pickers in Finland than usual, which caused a significant decrease in the volume of wild and organic wild berries sold.