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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Goulburn Valley growers at risk of suicide after losing supply contracts - Farmers say cheap imports are destroying the local industry and around Shepparton.
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 00:25:10 +0100


I have never seen Australian fruit in Europe. South African, Peruvian yes and these sell readily. It is only a matter of getting it here?
John

This sickens me. How can we help preserve the remaining trees? Can we help
create a market somehow? We are a fairly large group, located all over the
world. Surely our collective minds can provide a solution. Let's put them
together and brainstorm for these trees and these humans!

Carolyn


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>wrote:


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Goulburn Valley growers at risk of suicide after losing supply contracts

Updated 9 hours 11 minutes ago
*Video:* Heartbreak for Goulburn Valley orchardists (7pm TV News VIC)
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Thousands of fruit trees, some almost a century old, are being ripped out
of the ground in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria's most productive fruit
growing area.

Farmers say cheap imports are destroying the local industry and around
Shepparton, one in five suppliers to the local cannery have revealed they
are suffering from depression.

SPC Ardmona recently cut its intake of locally-sourced fruit, as the
company struggles to compete with a influx of cheap imported fruit on
supermarket shelves.

Jimmy and Kamal Singh have grown fruit near Shepparton for 14 years.

Some of their pear trees are 90 years old.

This is really sad. You can see how healthy these trees are. They grow
beautiful fruit. We just can't sell it.
Jimmy Singh, pear grower

Mr Singh has lost his entire contract to supply fruit to the cannery and
has already had more than 3,500 trees knocked down.

"This is really sad. You can see how healthy these trees are. They grow
beautiful fruit. We just can't sell it," he said.

Right across the Goulburn Valley trees are being destroyed because of
concerns about fruit fly.
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