The Australian Banana Growers Council is urging backyard banana growers to get a permit to help stop the spread of bunchy top disease.
National program coordinator David Peasley says commercial crops from Byron Bay to Cooroy are monitored closely for the disease but backyard growers can unwittingly pass it on if they give their plants away.
The disease is spread by aphids, and stunts plants and deforms bunches. Link to rest of story;