"What we found was they really experienced challenges with de-handing or removing the hand of bananas from the bunch."
"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.
"You have to have industry and scientists working together, I think that's the best way forward,"she said.
"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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