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Australian farmers invest in robots, autonomous vehicles to combat worker shortage

Robots are being used to commercially farm more than 405,000 hectares of Australian farmland, with growers seeing them as the answer to workforce shortages.

The Bundaberg region, about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane, is known as the fruit bowl capital of Australia and produces one quarter of the nation's fresh produce.

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