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COUNTRY CALENDAR - TONGA BANANAS

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Year
1984
Reference
TZP8030
Media type
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Year
1984
Reference
TZP8030
Media type
Moving image
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Series
COUNTRY CALENDAR
Categories
News & Production
Duration
014:48
Broadcast Date
25/11/1984
Production company
TVNZ
Credits
REPORTER: Amanda Robertshawe
PRODUCER: Howard Taylor

There are 270 banana growers in Tonga registered with New Zealand's biggest Horticultural Aid Project in the South Pacific. Amanda Robertshawe visits the plantation of Manasi Tui'inuka Afe, shows control of insects, removal of diseased plants, and spraying for black leaf streak, the diseases that decimated the Tongan Banana Industry in the 1960's. Harvesting and packing bananas for export on the "Forum Samoa".