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:
- Vanuatu offers national airline to bring hundreds of harvest workers a day (North Queensland Register)
- Lack of plans for fruit pickers risks worker exploitation, industry warns (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Orange capsicums are superfoods for your eyes, but good luck finding them (ABC News)
- ‘It’s going to rise’: Aussie farmers have lost $39 million in crops (Sky News Australia)
- Demand for seasonal workers sparks row (The Australian)
- Feed the Need program to help industry newcomers (Stock Journal)
- Coronavirus: Labor shortages hurting fruit and vegetable growers head south to Victoria and Tasmania (The Australian)
- Why farmers are being forced to cut winter crops in half (The Queensland Times)
- Victorian Government launches $6000 assistance package for temporary fruit pickers (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Scott Morrison will open up $200m in grants to back onshore diesel storage projects (The Australian)
- Millions of dollars worth of crops destroyed in ‘absolutely terrifying’ freak storm (ABC News)