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Originally Posted by topcropper
(Post 780606)
The strength of the aussie dollar is a big reason.
There are disease issues regarding importing bananas. So they aren't imported. And banana production has moved north as land prices are much cheaper and flat land is frost free in far north QLD, meaning easier production compared to climbing around a mountainside as you have to do in southern banana growing areas to get frost free. And then a lot of the mountainside banana farms at Coffs with ocean views were all of a sudden worth 10 million dollars to a developer, so they're all covered in housing now. So now cyclones wipe the crop out up north. See ya's. |