Bananas in Pyjamas
One of the largest banana growing areas in Australia is centred around Innisfail and Tully in north Queensland. Bananas are grown also in New South Wales and Northern Territory. Apparently they are our No. 1 supermarket buy, up there with Coke (wow!)
Biosecurity is very tight owing to another very threatening pestilence, Panama Disease. If the crop gets it, the entire farm and possibly those nearby are quarantined immediately, bulldozed, burnt and treated. It's like the cardiac arrest of bananas.
www.awe.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/pests-diseases-weeds/pla...
The bunches are covered by plastic to protect them although they are not allowed to ripen. Commercial ripening is done with ethylene gas in a controlled environment (ripening sheds) so they are near perfect when you buy them.
Here is the process.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/food-journ...
For those not familiar with the rather famous TV couple, Bananas in Pyjamas, here is the link.
Bananas in Pyjamas
One of the largest banana growing areas in Australia is centred around Innisfail and Tully in north Queensland. Bananas are grown also in New South Wales and Northern Territory. Apparently they are our No. 1 supermarket buy, up there with Coke (wow!)
Biosecurity is very tight owing to another very threatening pestilence, Panama Disease. If the crop gets it, the entire farm and possibly those nearby are quarantined immediately, bulldozed, burnt and treated. It's like the cardiac arrest of bananas.
www.awe.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/pests-diseases-weeds/pla...
The bunches are covered by plastic to protect them although they are not allowed to ripen. Commercial ripening is done with ethylene gas in a controlled environment (ripening sheds) so they are near perfect when you buy them.
Here is the process.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/food-journ...
For those not familiar with the rather famous TV couple, Bananas in Pyjamas, here is the link.