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I know how much technology is involved. At packing plants, there are not many people doing any packing. Many food-processing businesses are located in relatively small communities.
I am not asking you to name those councils; that would not be fair. How many councils did you manage to get comment from and how many comprise the minority?
We need to balance that with the loss of experience of people going out, but it is extremely difficult to say how many that would be, because there are so many variables.
The problem is that the companies that have moved into new markets and taken up the new technology do not employ as many people as they did previously. There is still a problem of job losses as the newer technologies do not require so many people.