Had these incursion happened under Government Industry Agreements (GIA) the products groups would have been liable to meet half of these costs. NZGrower and The Orchardist approached industry leaders, particularly those who would be victims to fruit fly if it ever set up home here, and asked them whether the fruit fly had changed their views on GIA, and whether they felt they liad the mandate to sign their growers up to such an agreement. Note: Queensland fruit fly is partial to citrus, apples, avocados, bananas, eggplant, grapes, pears, stone fruit, tomatoes and chillies. In this season and one region of Victoria it has cost $8 million. It adds between three to four dollars to the cost of every carton of produce sold from areas where it exists. Seestory Page 60.
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