Who Knows Where the Food Will Go?

There's a 'cost of living crisis'. The UK also has a post-Brexit 'food crisis', with fruit and vegetable crops rotting in fields. UK pig farmers are also finding insufficient slaughterhouse staff to make rearing these animals economic. The UK's Prime Minister and senior officials at the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs are consequently meeting with Industry and Farming leaders, in an attempt to alleviate these post-Brexit problems (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/15/ministers-call-for-immigration-and-uk-food-prices-to-increase). The current preferred answers seem to include increasing food prices (increasing farmer's profits), as well as granting more visas for seasonal fruit and vegetable pickers etc. Allowing more foreign workers in is, however, an anthema for the same government's Home Office. Folk siding with the Home Office, argue that low-paid seasonal workers should be replaced by mechanisation. They maintain that the intention to financially reward environmental improvements on farmland, is ill-conceived. What they want, is highly-mechanised farming, involving monocultures with minimal human involvement. It's unlikely that, currently, many farmers will be in a position to invest in mechanisation equipment (even where it exists). The resulting sterile agricultural environments, would also be unlikely to thrive long-term. Have they never heard of Ecology or sustainable environments?