Australia: Vegetable growers lack confidence in the industry’s future

Results from the Grower Confidence Survey, conducted by national peak industry body AUSVEG, show that grower confidence in the vegetable industry has declined by 3.5% during the July to September 2015 quarter when compared to the previous quarter. The survey involves a selection of 10 questions relating to how confident growers feel about key economic indicators, including macroeconomic confidence, investment confidence, market confidence and confidence in government policy.The confidence index has been constructed on the basis of these survey results in relation to an initial survey conducted for the quarter ending March 2015. “Australian vegetable growers are becoming more uncertain about the sustainability of their future within the industry,” said AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy. More