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:
- Coles and Woolworths relax fruit, veg specifications as COVID-19 and drought tightens stock (QLD Country Hour, ABC News)
- ‘I’ve never seen it like this’: why vegetables are so expensive in Australia at the moment (The Guardian)
- Fresh fruit and veg won’t give you COVID-19: Industry (Cally Dupe, The Country Man)
- Coronavirus crisis: Food supplies in Australia adequate but warnings of longer-term supply impacts (Gareth Boreham & Sarah Dowling, SBS News)
- Unemployment in Australia’s cities amid COVID-19 downturn sees farmers inundated (Lucy Barbour & Peter Somerville, ABC Rural)
- Agriculture jobs essential to Australia (Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management David Littleproud)
- CropLife working to ensure critical crop products supply (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Coronavirus restrictions have left many grey nomads with no place to stay, so farmers are helping out (Bec Whetham, ABC South East SA)
- ACCC relaxes supermarket buying rules so food supplies get through (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Coronavirus shutdown may have peaked in China but Australian exporters still struggling due to airfreight (John Daly, ABC South West WA)
- Coronavirus workplace casualties offered leg-up picking fruit and veg in North Queensland (Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Let ag’s visa workers stay longer with health cover says union (Andrew Marshall, Good Fruit and Vegetables)
- Job opportunities call as Australian businesses redeploy coronavirus layoffs (Matilda Boseley, The Guardian)
- WA authorities urge backpackers to ‘go home’ before coronavirus travel lockdown (ABC South West WA)
- Zoom: the $29bn video-call app you’d never heard of until coronavirus (The Guardian)