The workers arrived on a chartered flight from Port Vila on Tuesday and will spend the next 14 days at Howard Springs quarantine facility, before heading to work across Top End orchards.
The group will join dozens of ni-Vanuatu harvest workers who arrived in September last year and had their visas extended to continue picking fruit.
Without them, Darwin Fruit Farmers manager Mark Smith said, many growers would not be able to send their mangoes to market.
“We'd go broke, I'd say,” Smith said.
