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:
- Wanted: 26,000 farm workers to harvest Australia’s bumper crops (The Australian)
- Job seekers urged by to take up fruit picking instead of handouts (Daily Mail)
- Around 6000 Tasmanians will take up fruit picking jobs this season (The Mercury)
- When JobKeeper and JobSeeker were announced ‘applications fell away’ (Sky News Australia)
- Growers and traders must contact Ombudsman for Horticulture Code of Conduct disputes (The National Tribune)
- Fresh Select, CSIRO make fortified vegie powders with misshapen produce (Gold Coast Bulletin)
- Vanuatu High Commissioner investigates ‘substantial’ pay and welfare issues of seasonal workers (ABC News)
- WA growers’ plea to speed up approval for Pacific Islander fruit and veg pickers to save harvest (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Why competition laws still fail Aussie farmers (Stock Journal)
- The bee population revitalises after bushfire season (2GB)
- Waste brassicas turned into ingredients using CSIRO tech (Food Processing)
- How much of Australia’s food is imported from overseas (Cairns Post)
- Victorian farmers may have to pay $8000 for seasonal workers under quarantine plan (Golf Coast Bulletin)
- International workers touch down as Queensland scrambles to stop the rot (ABC News)
- Potato prices up by 140 percent in 4 months (The West Australian)