Day: 17 April 2019

ABGC directors and senior staff travelled to Coffs Harbour in late February to meet with local growers and hold their quarterly board meeting. A tour of three banana farms and the Oz Group pack house was conducted during the visit, giving directors the opportunity to hear growers’ issues and concerns, which included the Coffs…

The Department of Defence advised that they commenced a program of night shooting on their Tully lands to help control feral pigs in late March. The program will run until June and follows a series of discussions between Defence and the Australian Banana Growers’ Council. Feral pigs are…

The components of the Banana Industry Levy are currently as follows, and ABGC has requested the Australian Government to remove the 0.75c/kg Freckle levy from 1 July 2019. Levy Amount Purpose 0.75c/kg Emergency Plant Pest Response (EPPR): For repayment of the industry’s share of the cost of the national…