Panama disease suspected at banana farm

By Nicholas McElroy
Updated February 5 2020 - 3:18pm, first published 3:12pm
A suspected case of the wilting Panama disease has been detected at a far north Queensland farm.
A suspected case of the wilting Panama disease has been detected at a far north Queensland farm.

A suspected case of a potentially devastating disease to banana crops has been detected in the region that supplies more than 90 per cent of the fruit to Australia.

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