Chuck Tryon atatenga udindo wa Purezidenti wa Bushel Boy Farms ku Owatonna koyambirira kwa Okutobala 2020, US inali idakali miyezi ingapo kuti ilandire katemera wovomerezeka wa Covid-19. Monga pafupifupi bizinesi iliyonse panthawiyo, Bushel Boy adakumana ndi kusatsimikizika kwakukulu. Koma sikuti chifukwa cha mliriwu. Chodetsa nkhawa kwambiri? Kuperewera kwa ogwira ntchito ku nyumba zosungiramo tomato za Bushel Boy ku Greater Minnesota ndi Iowa.
"Ntchito yaulimi ku US ndizovuta, kaya muli m'nyumba kapena kunja," adatero Tryon poyankhulana ndi TCB posachedwapa. "Zimayambitsa zovuta zatsiku ndi tsiku."
Zomwe zachititsa kuti kupereŵereku n'zovuta, koma m'dziko lonselo, kuchepa kwakukulu kwa anthu obwera kuchokera kumayiko ena kwadetsa nkhawa alimi ena. Ngakhale mliriwu usanachitike, kuchepa kwa anthu ogwira ntchito kunali kale vuto m'mafakitale ena angapo ku Greater Minnesota. Mu Novembala 2020, madera akumidzi m'boma anali ndi "ntchito zambiri kuposa zonena za kusowa ntchito," Finance & Commerce inanena koyambirira kwa chaka chino, kutchula zambiri kuchokera ku bungwe la Minnesota la ntchito.
Tryon adati kampani yake yakhala ikuyang'ana njira "zowonjezera luso lathu lolemba anthu ntchito" ku Minnesota ndi ku Iowa. Izi zikuphatikiza kuyanjana ndi Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce ndi mabizinesi ena mtawuni. Chipindacho chachita bwino pakubweretsa mafakitale ndi ntchito zatsopano mderali, a Tryon adatero. Koma tsopano, nkhawa ndikupeza antchito okwanira kuti agwire ntchitozo.
"Pali kuchedwa pang'ono," adatero Tryon. "Tikugwira ntchito molimbika ndi gulu lazamalonda ndi mabizinesi ena kuti tilimbikitse kuti si malo ongomangapo ndi chitukuko chatsopano, komanso malo oti anthu azikhalamo, azigwira ntchito komanso kuchita bwino."
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