Category: News & Media

Mena Creek organic banana grower Matt Abbott will look at opportunities for niche banana exports as part of a scholarship awarded in September. Matt is the banana industry’s 2016 Nuffield Scholar and will study marketing and category diversification, including the possibilities for branding and export markets for organic bananas. He…

Two of Australia’s biggest banana growers, the MacKays and Howes, have trialed a new insecticide developed to control weevil borer and rust thrips while avoiding mite flare-ups. Bayer in August registered the stem-injectable product, Movento Energy, for use in bananas after seven years of development. It follows on from the company’s Bayer’s Confidor…

An Israeli agricultural biotechnology company is considering two Australian field trials of tissue-cultured banana plants and a collaboration on Panama-resistant varieties. Several North Queensland growers visited the Israel operations of the company, Rahan Meristem, earlier this year. The trip was hosted by plant nutrition company Haifa Australia,…

Disaster struck not once, but twice at Queensland’s newly established and most northerly commercial banana farm. Research scientist Jeff Daniells and farm general manager Ken Reid tell the story of Hope Vale Banana Farm’s recovery. Hope Vale Banana Farm had achieved several milestones by early 2014. The…

  By Stephanie Dale Almost a year after Banana Industry Development Officer (IDO) Matt Weinert set out to help reinvigorate the subtropical banana industry in New South Wales he couldn’t be happier with the reception from local growers. And he doesn’t just mean the wonderful curries, pastas and bacon ‘n egg brekkies…

With 30 stands, our exhibition area was a real networking hub during the Australian Banana Industry Congress. Some of our exhibitors share their thoughts on the event and our industry. Arcella Banana Company  “Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success” – Henry Ford. The success…