The California Department of Food and Agriculture is announcing on their website that the California Farmworker Foundation is now part of a pilot project with the state to administer COVID-19 tests in the field for farmworkers.
The announcement goes on to say that CDFA is part of the state team, partnering with companies and organizations like the California Farmworker Foundation to increase testing availability in agricultural communities.
The pilot project, which began last month and is available to employers and employees upon request, utilizes a mobile unit to visit sites in Kern County and is being praised for the ease and efficiency of the testing process from swab to results.
The Foundation is collecting between 200-250 samples per day and is uniquely positioned to achieve this through established relations with both Ag employers and farmworkers, and an ability to reach remote working communities that may not otherwise have access to fixed COVID-19 testing sites.
