NFF plan to ease labour shortage concerns

AUSVEG chief executive officer, James Whiteside. Pic – website
Brooke Littlewood

A DEPLETION of the foreign labour force due to COVID-19 has left farmers anxious about picking and packing this year’s crop and planting for next season. And amid the fear and uncertainty, the National Farmers’ Federation’s (NFF) Horticulture Council last week pitched a potential solution to governments. It is, what the NFF has called a […]

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