Fruits Info

River land packers say they are not being weakened on the price of citrus through a endorsement in which three kilogram bags are being sold for $1.

Dennis Hodgson from Lockett Brothers in Ramco says the orange prices are being heavily subsidized by traders at Adelaide's Central Markets where the sponsorship is running.

And Mr. Hodgson says it is not likely growers would be discarding citrus this year because of an oversupply.

But he says some fruit is being discarded because of frost damage.

"Pre-frost it would've only just been the normal excess juice fruit that would've been dumped and that's based around generally the quality of the fruit, if it's not up to scratch it's sent to the juice factory or the dump, but since the frost of course, yes, there's probably a lot more fruit being dumped," he said