Australia’s Pandemic-Hit Farms to Reach Out to Asia for Labor
- Three-year work visas to be offered to Asean nation citizens
- Lack of backpackers has threatened agricultural production
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Australia is looking to recruit Southeast Asian farm workers as the pandemic and a new free-trade deal with the U.K. exacerbates labor shortages in the nation’s A$66 billion ($51 billion)-a-year agriculture industry.