16 Feb 2022

Record crops for fruit growers amid picker shortage

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 16 February 2022

Many fruit growers are reporting record crops this year.

It should be a time for celebration but there is - of course - the ongoing issue of staff shortages.

Richard Clarkson, pipfruit general manager at Birdhurst Orchards in Motueka and president of the Motueka Fruit Growers Association, talks to Jesse.

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Photo: Susan Murray RNZ

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