Life with TR4 is tough, but possible for banana growers

Ashley Walmsley
Updated June 17 2019 - 4:08pm, first published June 5 2019 - 7:00pm
STILL GOING: Mark Smith, farm manager, Darwin Fruit Farms, NT with Gavin and Stephen Mackay, Mackay Farming Group, Tully, Qld, during the Australian Banana Industry Congress panel session on living with Panama TR4.
STILL GOING: Mark Smith, farm manager, Darwin Fruit Farms, NT with Gavin and Stephen Mackay, Mackay Farming Group, Tully, Qld, during the Australian Banana Industry Congress panel session on living with Panama TR4.

BANANA growers have been told that it is possible to live with the crop disease, Panama Tropical Race 4, but it's hard work.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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