State to offer extra pay to chile workers

rer080520c/A1/August, 01, 2020, Roberto E. Rosales Green Chile harvest season is upon once again but with higher demands and not enough workers farm owners are doing what they can in order to proved New Mexicans their beloved crop in the midst of a pandemic. Pictured are farmers continuing to harvest green Chile at Adams Produce farms. This farm provides green Chile for a lot of restaurants in Albuquerque. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal

Workers carry tubs of freshly harvested green chile on the Adams Produce farms in August 2020. State officials are planning to use federal stimulus dollars to temporarily boost wage levels for chile pickers in an attempt to address a worker shortage. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

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