Friday, 16 April 2021, 11:34 am
New Zealand’s primary sector has continued to thrive in
the past year, surfing off a wave of global demand for
quality, safe healthy food products.
It
has come despite some severe supply chain challenges, both
here and abroad, in markets whose consumers daily lives’
are far more constrained than what us Kiwis have become
accustomed to.
Despite positive continued confidence,
we have recently seen the primary sector’s growth story be
limited more by human resources, than by lack of future
markets.
The growth potential in areas like
horticulture in particular is increasingly tempered by the
Press Release – Bayleys New Zealands primary sector has continued to thrive in the past year, surfing off a wave of global demand for quality, safe healthy food products. It has come despite some severe supply chain challenges, both here and abroad, in markets whose …
New Zealand’s primary sector has continued to thrive in the past year, surfing off a wave of global demand for quality, safe healthy food products.
It has come despite some severe supply chain challenges, both here and abroad, in markets whose consumers daily lives’ are far more constrained than what us Kiwis have become accustomed to.
“We are looking at a gap of several hundreds of workers,” Gregan said. “We have been doing a lot of work with the Government and the other agriculture industries to try and develop solutions, but at the end of the day it is about getting more workers into the country and only the Government controls that,” Gregan said. With Marlborough s unemployment rate currently at 2.4 per cent there were very few workers available in Marlborough. Getting more Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers into the country was the only answer to the fill much needed jobs, he said.
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About 65 million grape vines in Marlborough will be pruned by hand over the next four to five months.
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Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said the Government was looking at increasing the number of seasonal workers from the Pacific but warned it would be limited. Photo / File
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said the Government was looking at increasing the number of seasonal workers from the Pacific but warned it would be limited. Photo / File
The Government is warning that although it is looking at ways of increasing the number of seasonal workers from the Pacific next year, they won t be at pre-Covid-19 levels.