Category: Media Releases

The Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) has launched a new page on its website for growers to advertise job vacancies on their banana farms.The dedicated, noticeboard-style page comes as a result of continuing critical labour shortages. Growers interested in including their job vacancies on the page…

Biosecurity Queensland, in consultation with ABGC, have created a series of videos to help spread the biosecurity message. In the videos, which you can view here, growers share their story about what biosecurity is and how everyone can play a part in protecting farms.  Full release…

The National Banana Roadshow Series is back this November, with a mini, COVID-safe version set to stop in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.  The Roadshows are brought to you by DAF and delivered as part of the industry’s National Banana Development and Extension…

Media Release from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) has confirmed Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4) is present on a fifth commercial banana farm in the Tully Valley.Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the property had been declared…

Queensland GovernmentDepartment of Agriculture and Fisheries MEDIA RELEASE 25 August 2020 New suspect case of Panama TR4 in Far North Queensland A suspect new case of Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4) has been detected on a Tully Valley banana property in Far North Queensland.  If confirmed, this…

ABGC has been advised that the Queensland Government has stepped up its compliance monitoring activity to ensure all farms have a COVID-19 Health Management Plan in place.This is in response to the positive case of COVID-19 on a farm in Bundaberg earlier this year.Workplace Health and Safety…

Growers are invited to provide feedback on an ABGC-led Banana Industry Code of Practice for planting material.ABGC and Biosecurity Solutions Australia are developing the Code.The Code aims to provide detailed guidance to growers on the use of planting material and outline the reasonable and practical…