Lokacin da Chuck Tryon ya karbi ragamar shugabancin Bushel Boy Farms na tushen Owatonna a farkon Oktoba 2020, har yanzu Amurka ta kasance 'yan watanni kadan daga rigakafin Covid-19 da aka amince da shi. Kamar kusan kowane kasuwanci a lokacin, Bushel Boy ya fuskanci babban rashin tabbas. Amma ba wai saboda cutar ba ce kawai. Wani ƙarin damuwa? Karancin ma'aikata ga ma'aikatan lambun tumatir na Bushel Boy a Greater Minnesota da Iowa.
"Ayyukan noma a Amurka kalubale ne, ko kuna cikin gida ko a waje," in ji Tryon a wata hira da TCB kwanan nan. "Yana haifar da kalubale na yau da kullun."
Dalilan da ke haifar da karancin suna da sarkakiya, amma a duk fadin kasar, raguwar ayyukan bakin haure ya zama abin damuwa ga wasu manoma. Tun kafin barkewar cutar, karancin ma'aikata ya riga ya zama batun ga wasu masana'antu da yawa a cikin Greater Minnesota. A cikin Nuwamba 2020, sassan yankunan karkara na jihar suna da "ƙarin rubuce-rubucen aiki fiye da da'awar rashin aikin yi," Kudi da Kasuwanci sun ruwaito a farkon wannan shekara, suna ambaton bayanai daga hukumar ayyuka ta Minnesota.
Tryon ya ce kamfanin nasa yana duban hanyoyin da za mu iya "inganta ikon mu na daukar mutane" a duka Minnesota da Iowa. Wannan ya haɗa da haɗin gwiwa tare da Ƙungiyar Kasuwancin Owatonna da sauran kasuwancin garin. Majalisar ta samu wasu nasarori wajen kawo sabbin masana'antu da ayyukan yi a yankin, in ji Tryon. Amma a yanzu, damuwar ita ce samun isassun ma’aikata da za su cika wadannan ayyukan.
"Akwai ɗan ragi," in ji Tryon. "Muna aiki tuƙuru tare da ƙungiyar 'yan kasuwa na gida da sauran 'yan kasuwa don inganta cewa ba wai kawai wani yanki ne na sabbin gine-gine da sabbin ci gaba ba, har ma da wurin zama, aiki, da bunƙasa."
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