Australia’s largest cannery will cut its canned fruit production as cost-of-living pressures push consumers towards low-cost imports. SPC in northern Victoria’s Shepparton has told fruit growers it will cut peach and pear intake by more than 40 per cent in the upcoming season, citing tough competition from foreign products.
“I don’t think many consumers realise that a lot of that Select or Coles or Aldi or IGA-branded products, even though they say they’re community company, it’s actually a product of China or South Africa,” Crisera said. “There needs to be some sort of protection for Australian growers. “Every other country around the world seems to want to protect their growers except Australia.
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