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Strict Covid-19 measures, which helped New Zealand suppress the deadly infection, have left the country’s farmer community without foreign workers’ support, according to local media on Monday. Exporters in the horticulture sector are seeking permission for foreign workers to be allowed to enter the country, Radio New Zealand reported. “Next year, 2,000 seasonal pickers will arrive from the Pacific in the New Year but the industry said it would still be well short and many locals simply were not suitable for the jobs,” the report added. The country’s largest organic apple producer Bostock New Zealand had run an advertising campaign to recruit nearly 300 apple orchard workers “but only 55 people got jobs.”—AA