COVID-19 shutdown devastating for small producers supplying Australian restaurants
ABCAs restaurants are forced to close in a bid to flatten the curve of COVID-19 cases, the farmers that supply them are scrambling to survive. Key points: Winemaker predicts his 30-year business will lose 90-to-95 per cent of pre-coronavirus sales Free-range duck supplier has "thousands" of birds on family farm and no demand Calls for Government to cut red tape so producers can create alternative supply chains Michael Dhillon has run Bindi Wines at Macedon, central Victoria, for more than 30 years and the measures in place to slow the spread of the virus will be devastating for his business. "I think that we're looking at a 90-to-95 per cent reduction in sales, so basically we don't have any," he said. "We're trying to adapt what we do to selling to the public via butcher shops and online," Mr Clarke said. "I would like to think there is a level of good will in the community to support small, local businesses as they become more innovative in responses to the changes that we're seeing," he said.
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