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Day: 27 August 2017

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27 August 2017

Getting more bang for your banana buck

After a successful six month period of marketing for Australian Bananas, the brand is set for another big push in the second half of 2017. As always, the focus will be on getting the maximum bang for your banana buck.  Elisa King explains.    …
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles News & Media
27 August 2017

New banana cultivars will help in Panama TR4 fight

By Ashley Walmsley   American Professor Randy Ploetz, says resistant cultivars are the best way forward for Australian banana growers facing a future with Panama Tropical Race 4 disease.   Speaking as one of the international keynote speakers at Congress, Professor Ploetz said Cavendish banana…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles News & Media
27 August 2017

Collaboration the key to water quality work in the Wet Tropics

With an increasing amount of work being done on water quality in the Wet Tropics, the ABGC’s Industry Strategy Manager, Michelle McKinlay looks at the collaborative approach underway that will spark future improvements. There is a lot of water quality activity happening in the Wet…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles News & Media
27 August 2017

Top gong for former ABGC Chair

Former Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) chair Doug Phillips received the highest accolade from the Australian banana industry during the 2017 Congress Banana Ball. Mr Phillips was the sole recipient of the ABGC Award of Honour, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the industry…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles News & Media
27 August 2017

Industry resilient in face of Panama disease

The discovery of a suspect second case of Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) on a property in the Tully Valley was not ideal, but was not unexpected. Panama TR4 acting program leader Rhiannon Evans said that although Panama disease was extremely difficult to manage,…
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Australian Bananas Magazine Magazine Articles News & Media
27 August 2017

Identifying resistance to Fusarium wilt in wild seeded banana lines

Most banana varieties grown for consumption are seedless.  In the wild, these varieties would not survive and it is only through propagation of corms and suckers or from tissue culture plantlets that bananas can be grown as a crop.  This, however, leads to huge problems…
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