Specialising in unique, world class and locally produced bananas, passionfruit, bananas, mangoes, avocados and coffee; here's why Farrants Fresh is best! David Peasley has thirty years experience in a range of horticultural fruit industries in New South Wales, twenty years as a District Horticulturist then as Program Leader with NSW Agriculture, heading the Tropical Fruit Research, Development, an
d Extension program. He led the largest project funded by the Horticultural Research and Development Corporation, the National Banana Plant health Improvement project, worth $3.5 million from 1993 to 1998, and the resurgence of research into the sub-tropical coffee industry. He has co-authored two reference books on coffee - “Coffee Growing in Australia - a machine harvesting perspective” (1995, 1997), and the chapter on coffee in the “New Rural Industries” Handbook for Farmers and Investors (1998). David has maintained strong links with the horticultural industries of the North Coast of NSW, and has held position on the board of the NSW Banana Industry Committee, the Australian Passionfruit Industry R & D and Vine Committees, the NSW Mango Committee and Tweed River Agricultural Society. David also provides advice to local government, the EPA and the National Registration Authority
on horticultural matters concerning land use and management practices on the North Coast of NSW.
