For four weeks Sarvan Singh has salvaged what fruit he can from the floor of his banana plantation in the Tweed Valley. Highly destructive winds ripped through his 8-hectare farm on the Cudgen ...

2006 was the year that Cyclone Larry rung up a 250-million-dollar insurance ... Up to 90 per cent of Australia's banana crops were wiped out. The price per kilo soon went as high as ten dollars.