08 June 2023
“The last three decades have seen more and more of our food processing offshored and a steady decline in Australian owned agricultural supply chains,” said BCCM CEO Melina Morrison.
“We want to reverse that trend, which is why we’re holding a national agricultural co-operatives roundtable in Lismore today,” she said. “Securing access to food staples and preserving onshore food processing creates local employment.”
Read the full article, Offshoring of Australia’s food processing must be reversed: BCCM, in the Australian Rural & Regional News, 8 June 2023
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