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Aussie banana industry hit hard

<p>AUSTRALIA'S banana industry has been shaken up on both sides of the continent, with last weekend's Tropical Cyclone Olwyn destroying 100% of the crops from Western Australia's premier banana plantations in Carnarvon.</p>

Alex Paul
Aussie banana industry hit hard

  And over the weekend the detection of the debilitating Tropical Race 4 strain of Panama disease on Cavendish bananas was confirmed on a banana farm in North Queensland. Carnarvon's plantations were...

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