Australia: Soil fungus hitting NT banana trade.

Northern Territory banana growers are warning of a shortage of local fruit next year as the destructive soil fungus known as ‘panama disease’ has destroyed almost every commercial planting of Cavendish bananas.
Lambells Lagoon in Darwin do two-thirds of the bananas in the Territory, but grower Mark Smith says bulk fruit will have to be imported from North Queensland next year to meet local demand, but if there is another blow over in north Queensland, there is concern that we may get imports from the Philippines and South America.