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HORTICULTURE<br />

enact some of the recommendations to increase the skill and<br />

size of the workforce to ensure horticulture businesses have the<br />

workers they need to grow.”<br />

ABARES predicts horticultural production will fall in 2021–22<br />

and 2022–23 before production is forecasted to increase<br />

nominally at a small yet steady rate as the supply of overseas<br />

labour upturns.<br />

While the road to salvation for horticulture is some way off<br />

returning to its pre-COVID levels, the steps taken should help the<br />

burden faced by many farmers over the past 12 months.<br />

Above: The National Agricultural Workforce<br />

Strategy aims to attract, upskill and<br />

modernise the agricultural workforce<br />

Traymount T3<br />

300L<br />

$<br />

4135<br />

GA6500008<br />

3 Point Linkage<br />

From<br />

$<br />

4450<br />

Prairie Compact 300<br />

No boom<br />

$<br />

3585<br />

GA6500024<br />

RTV300 Pro-Reel®<br />

300L<br />

$<br />

9830<br />

GA4908090<br />

goldacres<br />

FFM-HH-5190090-CS-397<br />

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