QUICKLINKS

BANANA OVERVIEW

🍌SUPPLY UPDATE

National Banana transport figures for week 43 were just shy of 541,000 cartons. Temperatures in the far north are similar to be last week with early A.M. temperatures falling within a range of 15.0 - 23.6C across all major growing regions; and day time temperatures still ranging 30.5 - 36.7C, that top end is certainly seeing temperatures rising!! North Qld banana growing regions rain fall was as follows for the week: Mareeba receiving 7.4mm for the week and Walkamin with 5.4mm; with the coastal regions also experienced some showers - Innisfail receiving a total of a 1.4mm and South Johnston receiving 1.0mm throughout the week.

Banana skin colour was found to be a little backward in a number of stores visited this week; bloom also varied across displays, noted a little sap staining and light skin marking present in a few displays.

Retail ticket pricing in Queensland for cavendish bananas found as follows: Aldi’s banana ticket price at $4.49/kg; Woolies offered fruit at a ticket price of $4.50/kg; and Coles were offering fruit at $4.50/kg.

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BANANA SNAPSHOT

Left to Right: Aldi; Coles and Woolworths Cavendish Displays

AVOCADO OVERVIEW

🥑SUPPLY UPDATE

In a nutshell the national production figures for last week were as follows:

· Week 43, 2025 - The industry experienced an overall 12.09% decrease in production on the previous week’s harvest with this weeks total of 596,066 tray equivalents harvested and transported (approx 80,000 less tray equivalents) on Week 42, 2025 production. Light showers in WA are impacting harvest schedules as growers try to limit nodule damage and associated wet weather conditions.

Production across the country saw WA/NT growing the lead - accounting for 78.34% of the national production, followed by Tristate accounting for 8.54% ; NZ for 8.04%, Central NSW for 4.03%, Southern Queensland for 0.76% and TNR for 0.30% of the total production for the week.

· It is forecast that a total of some 604,000 tray equivalents will be dispatched this week (Week 44) nationally, with the majority of these of course being Hass! Production for the next three week period thereafter, is expected to fall within the range of 553K-575K tray equivalents per week.

In terms of Avocado retailing in the major supermarkets in Qld this week, we saw pricing remain fairly stable ie - Aldi’s Hass at $1.49each; Coles Qld stores visited had Hass avos on promo at $1.50ea; and Woolworths were retailing Hass at $1.50ea.