MATTERS OF STATE | Positive steps for ag sector looking for workers

By Member for Orange Phil Donato
Updated April 19 2021 - 10:14am, first published April 18 2021 - 3:03pm
BATTLE: Phil Donato with local cherry grower, Fiona Hall. As a result of travel restrictions and border closures local growers have struggled to get seasonal workers.
BATTLE: Phil Donato with local cherry grower, Fiona Hall. As a result of travel restrictions and border closures local growers have struggled to get seasonal workers.

Following reports of NSW growers losing revenue as a direct result of seasonal labour shortage of thousands of seasonal workers, attributed to COVID travel restrictions, I asked Ag Minister Adam Marshall the following question earlier this year in NSW Parliament:

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