More than 100 workers at a Victorian tomato glasshouse have been indefinitely stood down after a devastating tomato virus hit the business.
Agriculture Victoria revealed on January 17 that quarantine controls were put in place at the greenhouse company in the state's north-east after tomato brown rugose fruit virus was found. The virus spread from South Australia, where it was first detected five months ago.
The company employs about 160 people in the small town.
According to Moira Shire Council, about 40 percent of them are locals and the remaining staff are migrant workers including those on the federal government's Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme.
"The site is being quarantined and therefore operations there need to cease, so 100 employees are being laid off," council administrator Graeme Edmonson said.
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