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Covid-19 coronavirus: Orchardists plead for Pacific Island travel bubble 6 Apr, 2021 08:46 PM 5 minutes to read Travel bubble - orchardists plead with Govt for Pacific Island bubble. Video / Hawkes Bay Today Orchardists say more than $600m is set to be lost to from regional economies like Hawkes Bays as a result of the massive shortage of workers to pick fruit. The regions orchardists, exporters and growers reliant on seasonal work say theyve worked through the season with "anxiety and desperat...

Horticulture and wine industries renew call for Pacific Island bubble. “Tremendous frustration” is how one horticultural business owner summed up the mood of the sector, which is experiencing a morale-sapping labour crisis as major crops hit their harvest peak without enough people to pick them.   Harry Masterson, co-owner of apple coolstore and packhouse Green Planet, was speaking at a media conference on a Hawkes’ Bay orchard on Wednesday. “There just are not enough people,” he ...