Why This Company Says the Popular H-2A Visa is Overdue for a Tech Upgrade

Photo caption: A group of workers making their way to the US with the help of SESO. Photo courtesy of SESO. Article by Naoki Nitta. Modern Farmer – February 15, 2023.

This startup offers a digital solution to streamlining a heavily bureaucratic and abuse-prone farmworker program.

In parts of rural Mexico, there’s a visa that farmworkers treat like gold—yet nobody knows how to get it. That was the rumor that Marsha Habib heard. The co-owner of Oya Organics in Hollister, a 20-acre organic farm on California’s Central Coast, learned about the cherished H-2A visa three years ago. […]

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