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Seasonal workers arrive to help SA horticulture industry
The first of around 1,200 seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands are arriving in South Australia today to cover critical worker shortages and help support thousands of local jobs in the state’s agriculture and horticulture industries.
Just over 200 workers will arrive today from Tonga and will be transported directly to the specially configured Paringa Resort in the Riverland to undertake two weeks quarantine before beginning the vital work.
The program is expected to cost up to $7 million which is being jointly funded by the Marshall Liberal Government and the agriculture sector with industry contributing $2,500 per worker.
Pacific fruit pickers fly into SA to ease worker shortages this citrus season
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AprApril 2021 at 9:31am
The first of about 200 Tongan fruit picking workers arrived in Adelaide on Friday on their way to the Riverland. (ABC News)
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The first 200 international fruit-picking workers will head to the Riverland after touching down in Adelaide ahead of the citrus harvest, with their arrival expected to ease critical shortages in the sector.
Key points:
The group is among 1,200 Tongan workers who will head to the Riverland in coming weeks
The government says they are vital to ensure fruit is picked this season
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