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Agriculture sector experiments with foreign labour under tightly controlled pilot

ཟླ་༡༢ 23, 2025 2 mins read
Agriculture sector experiments with foreign labour under tightly controlled pilot

Bhutan is cautiously opening its agriculture sector to seasonal foreign workers, as authorities seek to address chronic labour shortages that have left large tracts of farmland fallow and driven up production costs.

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