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Speaker 1: Good news around climate turns out as it gets warmer,

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Speaker 1: we may well be able to grow different types of fruits,

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Speaker 1: things like bananas might well boom in this country. Demands

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Speaker 1: increasing nationwide apparently for sun loving plants.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Aaron McCloy is from far North tropicals and it's with us.

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Speaker 2: Aaron morning, Yeah, good morning. How are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Indeed, I was thinking about this yesterday I

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Speaker 1: was leaving the country up north. It was twenty degrees

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Speaker 1: at my place yesterday, twenty in August. It's ridiculous. Are

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Speaker 1: we getting there in terms of temperature? Has it change

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Speaker 1: or is it still changing?

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Speaker 2: Oh? That's a that's one hundred thousand dollars million dollar question,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. But I think what people are noticing is

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Speaker 2: that a lot of people getting less frost or no

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Speaker 2: frosts where they used to get frosts, and that makes

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Speaker 2: a massive difference. Do you want to grow tropical plants?

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Speaker 1: Do we want to grow to do we want to

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Speaker 1: do it because we can and go look at that?

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Speaker 1: How cool is it I've got a banana? Or do

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Speaker 1: we do it because there's genuine demand and we can

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Speaker 1: save ourselves a few food miles.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's two questions. The first is, I

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Speaker 2: mean there's a banana fruiting on Oriental Prede in Wellington

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Speaker 2: last year. The other thing is there's people in the

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Speaker 2: backyards can go, okay, this is cool. I'm a gardener.

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Speaker 2: I can now grow pineapples pretty much over a great

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Speaker 2: whack of the country if you want to go for

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Speaker 2: red pineapples. And that's just the cool factor. The other

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Speaker 2: thing is, especially up in Northland, you can go, I

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Speaker 2: can put it in a hectare of bananas, you know,

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Speaker 2: and then make it an actual commercial venture. So and

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Speaker 2: it's successful.

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Speaker 1: So are you getting more per hector on bananas than

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Speaker 1: you would be, say, sheep, dairy, beef, whatever.

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Speaker 2: Oh for sure. We did some banana workshops. We had

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Speaker 2: some beef farmers come along and they were telling us

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Speaker 2: get in about fifteen hundred per hectare for dry stock,

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Speaker 2: and at three or four bananas per per sorry, bananas

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Speaker 2: at three three meters apart, you can get them up

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Speaker 2: to about fifty five sixty k per hectare.

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Speaker 1: That's and that's really liable or highly speculative.

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Speaker 2: No, no, that's basically we work it off tin kg bunches.

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Speaker 2: Whereas the bunches are usually fifteen to twenty five kgs,

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Speaker 2: so we're kind of right down to the very minimums

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Speaker 2: of what you might be getting and we haven't even

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Speaker 2: factored them too. If you're going to start selling the flowers,

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Speaker 2: the leaves, the honey or the stems on top of

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Speaker 2: selling the bananas.

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Speaker 1: So there's lots of potential there. Interesting inside. Eron, well done,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time very much, Aeron mcloy who's a far north.

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Speaker 1: Tropicals are the times they are at changing, it's going

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Speaker 1: to I was reading a piece over the weekend some

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Speaker 1: of the orchid not orchards, vineyards in France, Germany, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: with the tough summers they're having there having to think

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Speaker 1: long and hard about where they go in the future.

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