The Banana Growers Association gathered its crops to fill two containers, or 500 boxes of bananas for the New Zealand ripe banana market.
Bananas were harvested from the plantations of Taimalie Charlie Westerlund, Ututa’aloga Charlie Ulia and Tuisuga Sofara Aveau, who planted their bananas from South Africa in early 2017.
Nearly 100 other farmers received planting materials over the course of this year, signaling a promising future for commercial banana exports from Samoa, said the president of the Banana Farmers Association, Tuisuga Sofara Avea.
