The workers will be shared across industries and regions, Pollard said. Pollard, who along with other industry body chiefs, has spearheaded the operation to get the workers into the country and divvy the workers up among growers said it had been a complex job. Demand for the workers was critical among all growers, he said. Supplied The RSE workers arrive just in time for the apple harvest, which begins in February. The Government announced in November it would allow 2000 horticultural workers from the Pacific to enter in the new year under strict conditions. It is the first significant opening of the border to foreign workers since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.