• Dvixen@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        We paid about 3$AUD per banana just over a decade ago. Cyclone Yazi had wiped out a fair portion of the plantations.

        I don’t want to imagine what they’d hit cost wise if that were to happen now.

        • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          I remember when I was visiting Australia back 2009 I think and bananas were about $16 aud/kg. We were paying about $0.90 USD/lb. So if we multiply by 2.2 to convert to kilo and assume $1 AUD = $0.70 USD, it works out to $2.82 AUD/kg.

          Pretty darn close in price before the storm.