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UK is moving towards relaxing labor shortage norms to make up for the windfall in its crucial food industry There are plans in the UK to ease off immigration rules as the country faces issues with labour shortage and need to boost economic growth. There are plans to expand the government’s shortage occupation list in order to fill in crucial vacancies. The best way that the new PM sees is by inviting overseas workers. A range of sectors are facing labor shortage and Ms Truss has been getting requests from the various to ease off immigration restrictions to ease off the labor shortage pressures. Businesses it is told have been frustrated over the visa system for skilled workers of being unresponsive to not fill the windfall. A severe shortage in farming for example needs to be addressed. Such shortages, it seems is looking like it will badly affect food and the farming sector. The first one to be helped would be the seasonal workers’ programme. Similarly, those in dire need will nee...

He might have started as a butcher but today is known as a respected hotelier and restaurant owner in Dubai. His father as a native Lebanon passed on the trade of butchery to the young Fadi Al Safadi at the age of 13 years. But Safadi had other plans for himself and today at the age of 59 years, he is the proud founder and CEO of Al Safadi restaurant. The trade of butchery was considered respectable. His father was renowned at the trade and supplied to the best restaurants in Beirut in the 1970s. A success story of the economically downtrodden Lebanon can be this. Speaking to the local media that has now been writing about him due to the growing reputation of his restaurants, he said, “My time working for my father laid the foundation for something big to come in my life. He taught me to be prepared for everything. For one year, I worked as a cleaner in my father’s shop before he taught me the skill of butchery. My father was my best teacher. From treating customers well, to develo...

Drone technology can actually help solve the problem of deforestation It would be an incredible feat of innovation if seeds could be planted in mass, in the most predictable manner. Drone technology today is making this possible. Through this, we can look at planting a thousand trees in a day. This can be done by firing seeds directly at the ground. By putting seeds in a pod that is biodegradable, the pod is then shot into the ground through a drone. Intelligent sky trackers are using digital intelligence and automation to plant seeds with both speed and accuracy. Through artificial intelligence, scientist have identified the right species that can thrive in the right environment and therefore plant them when need be. This information is then fed into the drone that then follows a path and continues to plant seeds accordingly. What the scientists are now looking for a swarm of such drones that can actually help solve the problem of famine and deforestation. UAE for example has alre...