Growing unrest: bad apples spoil it for district orchard industry

By Tracey Prisk
Updated May 6 2015 - 7:29am, first published 4:00am
DUTY BOUND: Orchardist Guy Gaeta, with picker Sabrina Monibello, says growers are morally bound to do the right thing by the foreign workers they employ. Photo: STEVE GOSCH
DUTY BOUND: Orchardist Guy Gaeta, with picker Sabrina Monibello, says growers are morally bound to do the right thing by the foreign workers they employ. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

AUSTRALIA’S reputation for mistreating its foreign agricultural workers is impacting Orange growers who have seen a 50 per cent drop in the number of pickers coming to Orange this year says NSW Farmers horticulture committee chair Peter Darley.

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