The week’s top media stories
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- South Korea gaining popularity among Australian horticultural exporters (The Weekly Times) – subscription required
- VegetablesWA says Pacific worker boost a relief but State Government must act quickly (The West Australian)
- Mildura flagged as a quarantine base for seasonal farm workers (The Courier-Mail)
- Seasonal worker boost to offer some relief to WA growers, but is it too late for this year’s harvest? (MSN Australia)
- Woolies pays growers $1m to expand organic fruit and vegetable output (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- World’s first commercial robot picker goes to work in NZ (Inside Robotics)
- Costa set on abolishing ‘ineffective’ mushroom levy (The Courier Mail)
- The Department of Home Affairs assisting ICAC inquiries into ‘cash-for-visas’ scam linked to Maguire (MSN Australia)
- Farm work: Australians offered $6,000 in incentives to take up fruit picking jobs (NT News)
- Global Food Forum: LaManna’s Anthony Di Pietro says horticulture future “enormous” labour squeeze real (The Australian)
- Australia needs to stay friendly with China for agriculture export to double by 2030 (The Australian)
- Ripe for the picking: why COVID is forcing a rethink on farm labour (In Queensland)
- State govt releases biosecurity plan to protect $15b ag industry (Stock Journal)
- Garry Kadwell of Kadwell Gourmet Potatoes wins top gong at 2020 delicious. Produce Awards (The Australian)