Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made the announcement this Wednesday. The government will publish a decree recognizing agricultural production as a “sector in tension” The decision will “greatly facilitate the granting of visas” to foreign seasonal workers.
In October 2020, the French Office of Immigration and Integration (Ofii) brought in 900 Moroccan workers to “save the harvests” of Corsican clementines. For the year 2024 alone, the government has decided to grant forty-five thousand visas to seasonal workers in the agricultural sector.