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Queensland fruit farmers face a chronic shortage of fruit pickers
Queensland farmers are desperately trying to entice young Australians to fruit picking as they face a chronic shortage of workers, despite the fact they could be earning up to $3800 a week.
Growers are offering up an attractive wage for the position – once popular among the many backpackers to Australia pre-pandemic border closures – as various fruits lay rotting on the ground.
It comes after Rachel Mackenzie at peak industry group Berries Australia said the labour shortage is a “serious…
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