Pick the Burnett campaign aims to find citrus harvest workers amid labour shortage

Victoria Nugent
Updated March 17 2021 - 10:35am, first published March 15 2021 - 4:00pm
Pickers at Glen Grove Orchards during a previous season.
Pickers at Glen Grove Orchards during a previous season.

The push is on to find 500 workers to pick a bumper citrus crop in the Gayndah region, with a campaign launched in an attempt to combat labour shortage woes.

Victoria Nugent

Victoria Nugent

National sheep and wool writer

National sheep and wool writer for ACM's agricultural publications. Former livestock editor for Queensland Country Life. Send your story tips to vnugent@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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