QUALITY OF BANANA SUPPLIES
IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 23. New Zealanders should soon be able to buy bananas of higher quality, if the hopes of Mr J. C. Gerlach, tropical agricultural officer for the Department of Agriculture, are realised. Speaking to the Auckland branch of the Geographical Society tonight, he said he had found a number of weaknesses in the chain between planters and consumers.
In seeking remedies for these weaknesses, he had had full co-operation from all involved, and it was hoped that better-quality bananas would be offered in the near future, Mr Gerlach said.
A disadvantage of the present system was that bananas Were torn from the cluster ahd packed singly before shipment, he said. This interrupted the bananas’ sap stream, and made them more prone to deterioration.
To ship the bananas in clusters took up too much space, and the shipping companies had decided that the bahana export trade was not sufficiently large to justify building special banana ships after the fashion of those which Carried the fruit from South America and the West Indies to England and Europe, said Mr Gerlach.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 6
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