by AWIA | Jan 6, 2021 | Industry
Pick up fallen fruit in orchards With producers reporting traditional backpacker labour shortages for picking crops, there are reports of people saying they will leave their fruit unpicked or left to rot where it falls. Christina Cook, Manager of the National Fruit...
by AWIA | Jan 6, 2021 | Industry
A note from the CEO Welcome to the final edition of Tendrils for 2020. It has been a challenging 12 months, testing the resilience of communities and businesses and driving us to adapt to new realities. What has been most encouraging is seeing how people are capable...
by AWIA | Jan 6, 2021 | Industry
Introducing the HARPS Newsletter! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the HARPS Newsletter! To say that 2020 has been a year of change would be an understatement. With the change we have all been experiencing, mostly video conferencing from behind our computers,...
by AWIA | Oct 27, 2020 | Industry
Following consultation with industry stakeholders, we have published 2 new spray drift guidance documents to assist registrants with applications to update spray drift instructions, apply for a new spray drift risk assessment, or apply for consideration of new drift...
by AWIA | Apr 30, 2020 | Industry
Fresh Australian walnuts are on their way to market with this year’s harvest now complete in New South Wales orchards and nearing completion in other states. The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t greatly affected the industry, with harvest able to continue largely as normal...
by AWIA | Apr 8, 2020 | Industry
Despite the state of catastrophe decreed in Chile due to the spread of the coronavirus, fruit production has taken extreme hygiene measures to protect the sector’s workers and to continue at its usual pace, thus guaranteeing the supply of the Chilean population...
