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Industry in limbo

THE fight against fruit fly has fallen to the hands of industry, but there is hope a new arrangement can help to reinstate the invaluable pest free status that sets the region ahead of more southern competitors. From April this year, the local industry has been faced with difficult marketing conditions, after the Pest Free […]

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