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Big Steps in Variety Trials Future Looking Bright Issue: 59 | AUGUST 2020 BANANAS BIG STEPS IN VARIETY TRIALS FUTURE LOOKING BRIGHT TRACKING TR4 SPREAD PAGE 7 COVID CONSUMER TRENDS PAGES 12-13 BANANA FARMING LEGACY PAGE 26 abcg.org.au 1 Keep banana pests pinned down. Stop the suckers and borers wherever they’re hiding in your banana crop, with the innovative combination of the two active ingredients of Movento® Energy insecticide: • Controls actively feeding larvae of banana weevil borer. • Controls early nymph stages of rust thrips (Cavendish variety only). • When used as directed does not cause mite flare. Always ensure the product is handled appropriately and in accordance with the Precautions and Safety Directions on the Movento Energy label. To learn more visit: crop.bayer.com.au/moventoenergy or talk to your local Bayer Crop Science representative. Movento® is a Registered Trademark of the Bayer Group. Bayer CropScience Pty Ltd ABN 87 000 226 022. Level 1, 8 Redfern Road, Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia. Technical Enquiries: 1800 804 479 [email protected] EDITORIAL Sonia Campbell 0428 038 330 [email protected] Lea Coghlan 0439 005 946 [email protected] ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Impress Art Graphic Designs 0438 176280 impressart.com.au PUBLISHER Australian Banana Growers’ Council Inc. ABN: 60 381 740 734 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Jim Pekin INDUSTRY STRATEGY MANAGER Michelle McKinlay 15 R&D MANAGER Dr Rosie Godwin EXECUTIVE OFFICER Leanne Erakovic ADVERTISING Issue: 59 | AUGUST 2020 Hilary Opray CONTENTS [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman REGULARS BANANA FEATURE Stephen Lowe Deputy Chairman CEO’s Report 4 Banana farming legacy continues 75 years on 26-28 Leon Collins Chair’s Report 5 Building a bright future in bananas 40 Treasurer Banana levy rate 4 Banking on the banana 43 Ben Franklin Directors QBAN list 37 Stephen Spear Under the Microscope 42 RESEARCH Paul Inderbitzin Marketing update 44 National Plant Protection project Jade Buchanan kicking major goals 16-17 Doriana Mangilli Andrew Serra Panama disease research program learnings 18 INDUSTRY NEWS ALL MAIL TO Waterways report card 6 Results from NT TR4 screening trial 20-21 PO Box 309 Senate hears feral pigs impact 6 National extension program renewed BRISBANE MARKET for five more years 23 QLD 4106 Lakeland edges closer to long-term water security 7 AUSTRALIAN BANANAS Duranbah closure 8 Moko in Latin America 32 Australian Bananas is published three times a year Update on spread of TR4 9 by the Australian Banana Growers’ Council Inc. as REEF NEWS manager of the Banana Industry Communications COVID-19 12-14 Improve record keeping with BetterBunch App 6 Project. This project is funded by Horticulture Carnarvon production drops 15 Innovation Australia (Hort Innovation) using Journey to a stable farming future 11 Next Gen ensuring future of banana the banana levy and funds from the Australian Constructed wetland trial 39 Government. research in good hands 19 DISCLAIMER 2021 Nuffield Scholarships open 29 BANANA CELEBRATIONS Horticulture Innovation Australia (Hort Innovation) Lessons learnt from QLD TR4 experience 33 and ABGC make no representations and expressly National Banana Day 46-47 disclaim all warranties (to the extent permitted by Keeping Panama front of mind 34 law) about the accuracy, completeness, or currency Inspectors at coalface of Banana Bunchy Top fight 35 of information in this magazine. Users of this material should take independent action to confirm any Biosecurity Code of Practice 36 information in this magazine before relying on it in Uncovering fruit quality issues in northern NSW 38 any way. Reliance on any information provided by Hort Innovation and ABGC is entirely at your own risk. Congress 2021 45 Hort Innovation and ABGC are not responsible for, and will not be liable for, any loss, damage, claim, Front page: ABGC Chair Stephen Lowe is trialling a Cavendish selection from Taiwan on his Tully farm. The variety showed good levels of resistance expense, cost (including legal costs) or other liability to Panama TR4 at screening trials in the NT, and is being assessed now for its commercial suitability. Production is expected to start in the coming arising in any way (including from Hort Innovation’s weeks. Stephen is pictured with DAF Research Horticulturist Katie Ferro. and ABGC’s or any other person’s negligence or otherwise) from your use or non-use of the magazine, or from reliance on information contained in the magazine or that Hort Innovation and ABGC provide to you by any other means. 6 23 40 /abgc | /abgc | abgc.org.au 3 COMMENT CEO COLUMN Jim Pekin, CEO Surveillance After the signing of the MoU and CSD, the Board This disease will continue to spread, however with strategy is now focussing on a review of the TR4 Program’s so many potential risk pathways for TR4 we know surveillance strategy in the Northern Banana that the best way to protect your farm is to keep the Biosecurity Zone. review disease from entering your farm, and this means The new Panama TR4 Depending on the outcomes of this review, it could maintaining good on-farm biosecurity. Program Management affect different growers in different ways. Board was due to This review is likely to result in a change in the COVID-19 Health meet for the second frequency of surveillance visits for most growers. time on July 15, but had to post-pone, due to Management Plans For some, it will mean more surveillance, for others unforeseen circumstances. By now, most growers would be aware that the it will mean less. ABGC and BQ will be in a position Queensland Government has stepped up its The Board – which will oversee the continued to provide further details on the outcomes of the delivery and governance of the Panama TR4 review once the Board has approved the strategy. compliance monitoring activities to ensure all farms Program - will now meet on August 10, via have a COVID-19 Health Management Plan in place. You will see from the graph on Page 7 of the teleconference. magazine that TR4 continues to spread slowly in This was a direct response to a positive case of On 30 June, the Australian Banana Growers’ Council the Tully Valley on the infested farms, therefore all COVID-19 on a farm in Bundaberg earlier this (ABGC) and Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) signed a growers in this area and beyond should continue to year. ABGC understands that the Government is Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Cost be vigilant and report any suspect plants. Sharing Deed (CSD) establishing the joint funding planning to increase compliance monitoring across So far, the collaborative efforts of industry and arrangement and management of the Program by Queensland. government have limited the spread of this disease, industry and government. however early detection will always be key. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland and The signing was a culmination of many hours of Queensland Police targeted, in early July, farms As at 14 July 2020, 85 plants had been confirmed work by ABGC and BQ to fine tune how the two with TR4 in the Tully Valley, which have been across three regional growing regions, Burdekin and parties will jointly oversee and fund the Panama destroyed across 34 different destruction sites, Bowen-Gumlu, Sunshine Coast and Caboolture and TR4 Program until 30 June, 2023. across the four infested farms since 2015. Gayndah-Mundubbera. (See funding table below) Financial Year 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 If you are unsure of your requirements as an Industry share 10% 25% 40% 50% employer, you can find more information on Industry monetary amount $0.4M $1M $1.6M $1.6M the ABGC’s website www.abgc.org.au or email QG share 90% 75% 60% 50% [email protected] QG monetary amount $3.6M $3M $2.4M $1.6M Total $4M $4M $4M $3.2M ANNUAL BANANA VOLUMES Years ending 30th June (in ‘000 tonnes): 2013 341 The national banana levy collected by the Federal Department of Agriculture is compulsory for commercial banana growers. It is 2.19 cents per kilogram of bananas sold. 2014 371 The dollars collected show an estimate of production for the previous financial year. Right is a table 2015 371 of the levy-based banana volumes. For non-industry participants, please note this is an approximation 2016 393 of production, but not all bananas grown are sold, i.e. some don’t make the retailer-required 2017 414 specifications. 2018 388 Also, there is a lag factor, in that levies paid on June sales (at least) are paid in the following financial 2019 372 year. Exemptions from paying the levy and other details are to be found at agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food/levies/rates/bananas 2020 381* (*not yet audited) BANANA LEVY RATE The make-up and purpose of the various components of the Banana Industry Levy are as follows. Levy Amount Purpose The Banana PHA levy currently funds the containment of the first TR4 infested farm that the 0.50c /kg Plant Health Australia (PHA) levy: The Department sends the funds to PHA, for industry purchased and the industry’s part of the cost-sharing deed with the Queensland the ongoing containment and management of Panama Tropical Race 4 disease, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for TR4 containment. and to conduct activities that aim to improve biosecurity within the banana It also funds the pre-existing commitments – Torres Straight Exotic Fruit Flies Eradication industry. Response, PHA membership/meetings and Government levy collection. 1.69c /kg Hort Innovation (HIA) levy. The Department sends the funds to HIA for R&D and Marketing: 0.54 c/Kg is for Banana R&D, which is matched dollar for dollar by Further information: the Department and 1.15 c/kg for Banana Marketing Jim Pekin.
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