{"id":24207,"date":"2020-10-27T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/27\/free-meat-milk-and-firewood-new-zealands-dairy-farms-try-to-lure-local-workers"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:53:34","slug":"free-meat-milk-and-firewood-new-zealands-dairy-farms-try-to-lure-local-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24207","title":{"rendered":"Free meat, milk and firewood: New Zealand&#8217;s dairy farms try to lure local workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy industry contributes NZ$15bn to the economy, but farms are struggling to find workers amid Covid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand farmers are so desperate for workers that they are offering unlimited supplies of free meat, milk, honey and firewood to tempt employees onto remote properties.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, ordered the closure of her country\u2019s borders in mid-March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/new-zealands-covid-19-response-the-best-in-the-world-say-global-business-leaders\">sparing New Zealand the worst of Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/27\/free-meat-milk-and-firewood-new-zealands-dairy-farms-try-to-lure-local-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy industry contributes NZ$15bn to the economy, but farms are struggling to find workers amid CovidCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand farmers are so desperate for workers that they are offering unlimited supplies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,65,653,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-environment","category-farming","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions\/24208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}