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BANANA OVERVIEW

🍌SUPPLY UPDATE

National Banana transport figures for week 44 were a total of 551,692 cartons sent, an approximate 10,000 carton increase on week 43. Temperatures in the far north are similar to be last week with early A.M. temperatures falling within a range of 18.0 - 24.7C across all major growing regions; and day time temperatures still ranging 30.8 - 33.4C, that top end is definitely creeping up!! North Qld banana growing regions rain fall was as follows for the week: Mareeba receiving 0.2mm for the week and Walkamin with 1.0mm; with the coastal regions also experienced some showers - Innisfail receiving a total of a 0mm and South Johnston receiving 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 $4.29/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 44, 2025 - The industry experienced an overall 4.32% decrease in production on the previous week’s harvest with this weeks total of 570,265 tray equivalents harvested and transported (approx 16,000 less tray equivalents) on Week 43, 2025 production. This can be put down to the weather in the west with showery conditions impacting harvesting.

Production across the country saw WA/NT growing the lead - accounting for 83.14% of the national production, followed by NZ accounting for 8.71% ; Tristate for 3.67%, Central NSW for 3.52%, TNR for 0.67% and Southern QLD for 0.29% of the total production for the week.

· It is forecast that a total of some 576,000 tray equivalents will be dispatched this week (Week 45) nationally (weather permitting), 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 514K-587K 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 99c each with product feature in the weekly catalogue; Coles Qld stores visited had Hass avos on promo at 2 for $3.00; and Woolworths were retailing Hass at $1.00ea.