Bananas, one of our best selling fruits, are produced along much of the Queensland coastline, northern NSW and other places. Nonetheless, the industry is concentrated in far north Queensland; around 90 percent of our crop comes from this region. This concentration invariably leads to shortages following cyclones in the main growing areas; remember cyclones Larry in 2006 and Yasi in 2011 with resultant domestic price rises.
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