Category: News & Media

What more could a girl want? Catch up with friends and sample chocolate at the same time! This is exactly what members of the Banana Women’s Network (BWN) did on Sunday, 10 March during a visit to Charley’s Chocolate Factory at Mission Beach. The group learnt about growing cocoa and how it…

In a room filled with colourful butcher’s paper, post-it notes and connector pens, a speaker holds the attention of a small, engaged audience. It’s fitting that the group seems to take it all in – the topic being discussed is ‘listening’. A simple concept, but not without its challenges, as…

It’d be safe to say there are few banana farms with a better view than the Luxton family’s in the Tallebudgera Valley. Brothers Brian and Ian, along with Brian’s wife Kathy, have about 20 acres of bananas on their South East Queensland property. Being the subtropics, they’re grown…

Tate Connolly, Marketing Manager Welcome to the Australian Bananas 2019 Summer marketing update. This activity is managed by Hort Innovation on behalf of the industry and is funded by the banana marketing levy.  Above the Line activity TV plays a key role in driving mass awareness…

Deanna Belbin, Biosecurity Queensland Did you know you there are alternative farming options available for Panama TR4 affected land? If you want to grow crops other than bananas or raise livestock on a parcel of land that has been confirmed with Panama TR4, Biosecurity Queensland can help. To…

Deanna Belbin, Biosecurity Queensland Biosecurity Queensland is asking growers to be extra vigilant when dealing with plants showing symptoms of Erwinia, (bacterial corm rot) as plants with Erwinia can also have Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4). Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said Erwinia is more…

Prof André Drenth, Centre for Horticultural Science, The University of Queensland Fusarium wilt TR4 was first identified in Cavendish plantations in Indonesia and Taiwan in the early 1990s. Since then, it has spread across many banana-growing countries. A global threat TR4 is currently present in 17…