Mareeba fruit growers told Member for Kennedy Bob Katter they are furious with the Federal Government for allowing Vietnamese pomelos into Australia when the local picking season is in full swing.
Prices have dropped due to the influx of individually plastic-wrapped fruit especially packed in Vietnam for the Australian market.
Grower Zoran Priznic said he was getting $5.00 a kilo for his quality fruit but was advised by his Melbourne agent that prices had dropped to $3 due to imports.
“How can we compete against their low wages and the plastic-wrapped fruit when we are not allowed to use plastic?” the 20 year old farmer asked.
The Priznic farm east of Mareeba has a tremendous crop of pomelos this season and after a collapse of the lime market the family farmers thought they could recoup some losses with their pomelos.
Farmer Debbie Caamano said they had not touched their pomelos this year. “They are on the ground,” she said.
FNQ Growers representative Ebony Faichney said that imported limes from Vietnam could soon be competing against local fruit which would worsen the already over-supplied market.
“Pineapples and bananas could be the next imports which would affect local growers.”
Taking onboard the adverse effect of imports, Bob Katter said he had been fighting against all varieties of imported fruit for more than a decade.
“How do we compete against government support for Vietnamese growers? The last time I looked they get a lot of help,” Mr Katter said.
“There are only two countries I can find that get no agricultural subsidies and they are Australia and New Zealand.
“How do you explain that Australia now depends on overseas farmers for 42 per cent of its fruit and vegetables?
“We can make representation to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and there’s a chance they might stop it for a month and have a look at it, that’s the way we will look at it but I don’t want to raise your hopes yet.
“We will get a Question on Notice in parliament and that means the government will have to officially answer that question.”
Tina Caamano said their farming activities had been hit hard by the cost of freight with fuel and fertiliser doubling in price.
“This has added $200 to $300 per tonne to freight, fertiliser has gone up and the amount that’s available in Australia is dropping quickly,” Ms Caamano said.
“Nothing comes down that quickly and we are stuck with high prices for a while.”
Vietnamese fruit growers receive subsidies, primarily in the form of input support, such as fertilizer and irrigation assistance. Local authorities provide financial incentives for establishing crops, specialized training in fruit cultivation techniques, and support for adopting VietGAP (Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices) standards.
The core issue is that Australian consumers are such speds they’re prepared to risk life and limb for the sake of saving a few dollars:
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/rare-parasites-resurface-in-vietnam-raising-public-health-concerns-2345031.html
Farmers soon won’t have to worry about Vietnamese imports.
Two field mice met on a cruise ship and made intimate contact with passengers, the sluts.
Spanish Flu you wouldn’t read about it, rat disease similar to 😳…..bat disease, cruise ship tourists flown into Perth all the way from Spain.
How long before wool, wheat and oats will be imported into Australia?
Prof Joe the Vietnamese do put their beer in cans so fruit shouldn’t be a problem
Something that should be seriously considered are drugs in small quantities inside fruit being exported inside individually packaged fruit .
The Vietnamese are as good as the Chinese making something that looks like the real thing to look at but upon closer inspection found to be something else much like their fake passport they print that look perfect. .
This is disgusting!! PLEASE get rid of this hideous government!! They do everything against us and nothing for us. All you non voters need to get on board. The alternative may not be perfect but a mile better than these creeps bent on destroying this country.
I have a lot of sympathy for the Vietnamese but what happened to quarantine. Why can’t everyone put their produce in cans if they want to send it here. At least chop it into pieces and snap-freeze it. Plastic wrapped fresh fruit should very obviously not be allowed in, this is just another failure of our UnaParty governments whose track records are failure and disaster all the way along. Even if I was taking bribes like them I would not perform so badly. First things first, build a wall around Canberra/ACT and don’t let anyone or anything in or out. Let’s see how they manage their affairs after a few years on their own. I can just imagine when the cameras go in after 5 years or so, Katy Gallagher scruffed up like a rubbish tip resident with a rat’s tail hanging out her mouth.
The article opens with – “… Mareeba fruit growers told Member for Kennedy Bob Katter they are furious with the Federal Government for allowing Vietnamese pomelos into Australia when the local picking season is in full swing…”
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Oh, they’re “furious”, are they?
So what are they gonna do about it?
Maybe take a selfie while staring intently into the distance, “fury” written all over their faces?
Or maybe write a sternly worded “petition” and get all the school kids in the district to mark it with a big “X”?
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And all the while the pollies, those Treasonous sold-out paid-off GANGSTERS employed by a foreign-owned CORPORATION continue to live their disconnected lives of obscene privelege and wealth and luxury and kickbacks to the Moon, but maybe taking an occasional break from festivities to hang their arse out the window of their fabulously appointed parliamentary domiciles to fart in our general direction.
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Meanwhile, Vietnamese politicians and beauracrats and public servants get an onion to bite down on when they’re taken out and SHOT for corruption and Treason. Because Vietnam is a REAL country, they wear Big Boy pants over there. In Vietnam, “fury” actually MEANS something.
Our parliamentarians are not working for Aussies in every aspect of life. They need to be sacked ASAP
Australia should only import what it doesn’t produce like why are supermarkets allowed to import premixed breads from the UK and then baked here and fish and fruit & vegetables from Vietnam relabelled that it came from NZ
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