Fruit to suffer more than vegetables from lack of labour: ABARES

Ashley Walmsley
March 3 2021 - 11:00am
POSITION: According to ABARES, many vegetable producers are smaller scale and less acutely affected by the reduced supply of overseas labour because they are better able to mobilise family labour.
POSITION: According to ABARES, many vegetable producers are smaller scale and less acutely affected by the reduced supply of overseas labour because they are better able to mobilise family labour.

SMALLER scale vegetable producers will be better positioned to handle the lack of labour in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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