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:
- Australian carrots continue to be a popular vegetable at home and abroad (FreshPlaza)
- Watermelon, chilli prices set to rise after torrential rain destroys up to 85 per cent of summer crops (ABC News)
- Calls for fruit and veggie pickers on WA farms to have 12-month pandemic visas extended as expiry looms (The West Australian) – subscription required
- Research facility reinvigoration aimed at faster AgTech uptake by vegie growers (The Ipswitch Tribune)
- Flooding in NSW causes Christmas fruit and vegetable shortage (Channel 9 News)
- Furious farmers to fight (Stock and Land)
- Australian farm production tipped to break records this financial year, ABARES says (ABC News)
- Taiwan holds great potential for Australian vegetable exports (FreshPlaza)
- How science is changing the future of Victorian food (Herald Sun) – subscription required
- Horticultural farmers increase domestic workforce according to Government survey (The West Australian) – subscription required