Tour of Banana Farms in Portland
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Oral Lewis (right), of The Banana Board, explains the impact of the Swift River on banana farms at Canewood in Portland to (from left) Member of Parliament for West Portland Daryl Vaz, the Hon Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority, during a tour of flood-ravaged farms in Portland on February 1.
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