Category: Banana Feature

Peter (left) and Dan Molenaar By Sonia CampbellGrowers in northern New South Wales and the mid-North coast continue to recover from extreme flooding which caused devastation across communities in March. The catastrophic weather event left a path of destruction, with growers living in and around flood-ravaged…

There’s not too much more that can be thrown at Australian banana producers at the moment.Market prices below cost of production, high production rates, ongoing COVID consumer buying challenges, labour shortages, quality issues and now global economic pressures continuing to drive up the cost of…

Banana businesses of all sizes have been hard hit by ongoing pandemic-related worker shortages.The situation is constantly changing. Here, four growers share their experience so far.Alarm bells started sounding more than 18 months ago. As COVID-19 made its way across states, countries and seas, many…