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Fruit and veg prices set to soar as worker shortage cripples Australian growers – Sydney Morning Herald
New figures forecast the price of summer vegetables, stone fruit, apples, pears and grapes will jump up to 29 per cent this year.
The situation is only getting worse for our horticulture growers across the country, National Farmers Federation horticulture council executive officer Tyson Cattle said. Our growers are in desperate need for harvest labour and have been for the better part of a year.
The federal and state governments have spent the past months bickering over efforts to address fruit picker shortages caused by COVID-19, and have tried to encourage domestic workers to take up jobs on orchards comes after the industry…
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