Australian farmers forced to dump produce as cheap imports swamp the market
WHILE foreign investors are buying up Australia's most productive farm land for their own food security, we are eating more imported food even though it can be grown here.
A FIFTH of all our fruit and vegetables is imported from overseas even though it can be grown in Australia.
As foreign investors continue to snap up large tracts of our best farmland for their own food security, Australian farmers are being forced to dump produce or turn it into juice because of the cheap imports flooding supermarkets.
DRENCHING rain across Victoria has wrecked hundreds of millions of dollars of farmer's crops, putting upward pressure on the price of food on supermarket shelves.
