Labour shortages threaten growth of Eastern Europe’s poultry sector

Poultry producers in Eastern Europe are confronted with a fully-fledged labour crisis, caused by the bustling post-pandemic recruitment frenzy, coupled with long-standing demographic issues. Worker shortages threaten to slow production growth and make some of the largest European poultry producers less competitive due to higher costs. The Russian poultry industry is short of 6,000 workers, the Russian Agricultural Ministry reported late 2020, citing an estimate provided by Russian poultry far