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Good afternoon isolated growers and stakeholders of Seeka. We hope this update finds you safe and well. Firstly we have until 5pm tonight to register our businesses as an essential service at MPI. Seeka has done this as a company, for each of its processing and operating businesses and for its direct contractors. If you are a self-pick, have a contractor working for you directly and not through Seeka, or have more than five people on your orchard including your family (working or not) then you will need to register. If you are uncertain please talk to your CRM. We are continuing to operate. The process of self-sampling is underway with samples arriving at the VLS Lab, and regional labs at Main Road Katikati and Kerikeri. We understand that growers will want to have visibility of the line-up for testing and our team will share that shortly. We are testing about 140 ma’s a day at the moment. Most teams will take a well-earned break on Sunday. Staffing remains tight particularly around key staff roles and understandably people are anxious. We have heard that none of the post-harvest people in Italy have fallen to Covid-19 – this shows you that if we maintain strict protocols, the virus can be kept out. We have taken a lot of effort to make sure that every person in the business is safe. Harvest contractors have modified their picking processes and there are numerous changes at post-harvest to ensure the safety of our people including increased hygiene, distancing, additional café and rest areas and modified tea-breaks to make sure that people are at least 2 metres apart at all times. Marquees are being put up today at Oakside and KKP to provide additional café space, and to buffer shifts coming on and off site. Wardens are being put in place to ensure that distancing is maintained. Today screens are being trialled at Main Road Katikati to provide at least a vertical 2m distancing at the drops. If we are certain that these are safe for people and food, then we will implement at all sites and this will enhance safety and production. The teams have switched to a more bulk intensive pack mix, but will switch back into a proportionally higher layered mix once we get production to settles. Loadouts of fruit are running pretty much to plan without a hitch. We are today chasing a Friday night cap for Hayward – seemingly ludicrous in the current environment but I guess we have got to get the fruit in. The teams have really done very well. We are giving most teams a break on Sunday. To the numbers:
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Kind regards Michael |
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