Category: Media Releases

The Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) is urging the Queensland Government to follow suit with the New South Wales Government and implement half-price hotel quarantine for seasonal workers in agriculture. This week, the NSW Government introduced a 50 per cent subsidy towards mandatory quarantine for workers…

Australian banana growers who have lost up to 100 per cent of their crop to cyclonic winds are calling for urgent assistance from the Queensland and Federal Governments.In a devastating blow for growers already battling ongoing low prices and worker shortages, most Innisfail district banana…

The Australian Banana Growers’ Council is today working with growers and authorities to assess damage caused by a tropical low yesterday (March 1) that has since developed into Tropical Cyclone Niran. While TC Niran has not crossed the coast, the cyclonic winds have wreaked havoc…

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…