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Green banana bunches float in a water bath in a packing shed

"What we found was they really experienced challenges with de-handing or removing the hand of bananas from the bunch."
Green banana bunches  lay on rotating belt

Artists impression of what a robot arm banana de-hander would look like

"Farmers are crying out for a solution that can help them because they're actually struggling to get the labour for these types of tasks, especially when it's quite a dangerous task to cut bananas,"
he said.

Dr. Rosie Godwin R&D manager for the Australian banana growers' council smiles at the camera.

"You have to have industry and scientists working together, I think that's the best way forward,"
she said.
A woman and two men all looking at eachother stand in front of banana stems in a banana packing shed

"I think in three to four years from now, we would start to see some of this technology in the hands of farmers."

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