News / Aussie grain farmers push for container cleaning levy in pest control fight

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Grain Producers Australia (GPA) is calling for a container levy to cover the cost of cleaning and fumigating containers as the need to control the spread of invasive species on boxes is brought into sharp focus.

It is GPA’s second attempt to introduce such a levy after the first was shot down by Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, for reasons that GPA chief executive Colin Bettles described as “[not] properly explained to me at least”.

“Whether it was some practicalities ...