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Farm labour shortage risks food price spike as Aussies shun harvest jobs – Sydney Morning Herald
Food prices will rise for consumers and profits will fall for farmers unless an urgent fix is found for the coronavirus-driven worker shortage, farmers say.
Food prices will rise for consumers and profits will fall for farmers unless an urgent fix is found for the coronavirus-driven worker shortage, the farm lobby says, as it warns union demands to source local labour will lead to food rotting in the field.
Tyson Cattle, spokesman for the fruit and vegetable industry lobby group AusVeg, said the horticulture’s industry reliance on migrant labour was not a preference, but because “Australians had proven that they do not want to work in the sector”.
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