Australians are buying fewer bananas

In Australia, the health crisis has resulted in many changes in purchasing and consumption habits. Australians have reduced their purchases of bananas.

 

According to the media Cairns Post, Steve Morice, managing director of ABC (Australia Banana Company), estimates that Australians no longer buy as many bananas as before the pandemic. Due in particular to the development of online shopping. Consumers are deserting stores and no longer buying with their eyes. This impacts the fruit they buy and many choose stone fruit.

 

Demand for bananas has fallen in recent months, according to Australian producers who had already registered a decrease with the various lockdowns and the imposed closure of the HoReCa sector last year.

 

ABC (Australian Banana Company) is the banana packing plant of LPG (LaManna Premier Group) in Innisfail, Queensland. LPG is one of Australia's largest companies supplying domestic and overseas customers with a wide range of fruit and vegetables, of which bananas are the largest category.

 

 

source : dailymail.co.uk, cairnspost.com.au, lpgroup.com.au