Vietnam joins the Australian Agriculture Visa Program

Vietnam’s participation in this program strengthens and extends the already rich people-to-people links our two countries share. For decades, Vietnamese workers, students, business people, and tourists have made extensive contributions to Australia.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Minister for Labour HE Dao Ngoc Dung and The Hon Marise Payne, DFAT Minister to strengthen the labour cooperation and share a strong and optimistic agenda in our relationship. The Australian Agriculture Visa program is intended to provide a sustainable, long-term contribution to Australia’s labour supply that supports Australia’s agricultural and primary industry sectors. It supplements the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, which remains the mainstay for meeting agricultural workforce shortages in our primary industries sector and the key solution for the current harvest.

Under the Australian Agriculture Visa program, employees will be recruited to work across a range of agriculture sectors, including horticulture, dairy, wool, grains, fisheries and forestry, including support services and primary processing.

For further information, please refer to the DFAT website and access the Fact Sheet.