The week’s top stories (week ending 23/04/19)
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 industry:
- Allow horticulture to get the workers it craves with special visa (James Whiteside, The Weekly Times)
- Australian vegetable export numbers on the rise (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Horticulture wants commitment to ag visa ahead of Federal Election (Amelia Pepe, The Weekly Times)
- Labor demands answers on $80 million Murray-Darling Basin water buyback deal as Joyce fires back (Kath Sullivan, ABC News)
- Agriculture Department stands by water buybacks, amid claims of scandal and calls for an inquiry (Jane Norman, Stephanie Dalzell and Dan Conifer, ABC News)
- Giant global brands ban supermarket deliveries in price war (Andrew Robertson, ABC News)
- Meatless McDonald’s? The push and problems with plant-based fast food (Velvet Winter, SBS The Feed)
International news:
- Netherlands: What is the cost of vertical farming? (HortiDaily)
- Doha: Qatar Airways to source locally-grown fresh produce (HortiDaily)
- France: Organic farming ‘key to carbon neutrality’ (Fresh Produce Journal)
- Europe: EU acts to restrict unfair practices (Eurofruit)
- New Zealand: NZ kiwifruit industry gets labour boost (Produce Plus)
This post appeared in the AUSVEG Weekly Update published 23 April 2019. Subscribe to the Update using our online form to receive the latest industry news in your inbox every week!