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:
- Australians need to buy more vegetables to meet dietary guidelines (Mirage News)
- Farmers welcome airfreight boost for Australia’s fruit and vegetable exports (Mirage News)
- Needles and thumb tacks found in fruit and vegetables sold at Adelaide Woolworths (9News)
- Adelaide Plains vegetable growers call for councils to start spending money on Gawler River floodway (The Advertiser)
- Victorian-NSW virus border closure is unlikely to disrupt agriculture (The Land)
- Aussie veg intake “unacceptably low” (Eativity News)
- Green stimulus could save millions in welfare payments: EY report (Brisbane Times)
- Horticulture exports at the heart of economic recovery (Queensland Country Life)
- Report backs case for Murray Basin rail boost (Stock and Land)
- First farm biodiversity certification report due soon (Queensland Country Life)
- Fishers and farmers’ overseas air freight export program extended by Government (ABC News)
- The state of plant biosecurity in Australia (Victorian FARMER)
- Coles Nurture Fund grants $3m in latest round (Food & Drink Business)