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No bananas for nine months
By Jason Koutsoukis
March 26, 2006
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YOU may soon have to fly to New Zealand to satisfy your craving for the nation's top-selling grocery item, the banana.
Coles and Woolworths said yesterday supplies would run out in days, after cyclone Larry last week wiped out 90 per cent of the banana crop.
As prices raced towards $6 a kilogram, Coles spokesman Jim Cooper said supplies were dwindling fast.
"We're still trying to get an accurate assessment of the damage from our suppliers, but we know a lot of them have been wiped out and we don't expect supplies to last beyond the end of the week," he said.
Woolworths spokeswoman Claire Buchanan said supplies at Safeway supermarkets would not last more than a few days.
And the Federal Government's ban on banana imports means Australians face going without their favourite food for the next nine months.
With Australians consuming 15 million bananas a week, the supply crisis is expected to put pressure on the Government to overturn the ban, a move opposed by the nation's 1850 banana growers.