NT mango farms

Vanuatu seasonal workers begin work at Northern Territory mango farms

The seasonal workers are participants in the Australian Federal Government's pilot seasonal worker programme.

ABC News reports the programme aims to get Pacific seasonal workers back on Australian farms during the coronavirus pandemic.

They are helping to fill a labour shortage on Australian farms and are expected to be in the country for at least nine months.

Their job can be gruelling. The workers can spend hours in the hot sun, stripping trees of mangoes.