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Tully growers advised to stagger banana planting
18 May 2006
The Department of Primary Industries urged banana growers in the Tully region whose crops were devastated by Cyclone Larry to plan carefully their return to production to avoid gluts and subsequent low prices. The department said growers must heed lessons from Winifred 20 years ago, when almost 12 months' banana production was harvested in a four-month period, nine months from when Cyclone Winifred struck. The synchronised crop cycle in 1986 carried through into a second period of concentrated supply six months after the end of the first glut, resulting again in prices less than the cost of production. It wasn't until February 1988, two years after Cyclone Winifred, that production returned to a more even market supply due to producers leaving the industry, nurse-suckering of blocks and new plantings.
Department of Primary Industries, 18/05/06
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