SYDNEY - An outbreak of a feared disease affecting banana plants has been confirmed on an Australian farm, raising worries over the outlook for the country's $420 million industry. The so-called ...

Queensland's Bartle Frere Bananas is One of Four Australian Farmers Working with Hort Innovation and Hitachi Vantara to Apply Advanced Data Analytics to Improve Horticulture's Environmental ...

An outbreak of black sigatoka on bananas, a fungal disease that affects fruit and vegetables, is costing producers in North Australia over A$4m every week after an embargo was placed on fresh banana ...

Australia’s largest banana grower Mackays has reportedly put its entire farming operations up for sale. The operating business of the tropical fruit company could be sold for as much as A$180m ...

Bartle Frere Bananas, located in Queensland, Australia, is using cellular and radio frequency identification (RFID)-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to ensure the sustainability of its farm ...

"If you can trace a cow, you can track anything," Gavin Devaney, owner and managing director of Bartle Frere Bananas told ZDNet. It's the reason why for the last two years he has been rolling out ...

THE Philippine push to export fresh Cavendish bananas to Australia are currently the subject of negotiations and technical exchanges between the two governments, the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) ...

The Australian Banana Growers’ Council has appointed two new directors and farewelled a long-serving board member at its recent annual general meeting in the Far North. The AGM, held at South ...

Residents in an isolated agricultural hub are bracing for the arrival of a tropical cyclone that could flatten a banana crop ...