BanFarms grows, cuts and ripens bananas for shops, supermarkets, caterers and fruit traders. Tell us the variety, the volume and the colour you want on arrival, and we plan the cut around it.
Weekly standing orders and one-off bulk orders, packed in counted, labelled crates.
Every delivery is graded against the seven-stage ripening chart the banana trade already uses. You pick the stage you want the fruit to arrive at, and we time the cut and the ripening room so it gets there. No more boxes that are rock-hard on Monday and spotted by Wednesday.
All green
Green, trace of yellow
More green than yellow
More yellow than green
Yellow, green tips
All yellow
Yellow, brown flecks
Most shops order at stage 4. Juice bars and bakeries usually ask for 6 or 7.
BanFarms started the way most banana farms do: a few rows, a family that knew the plants, and a buyer who wanted more than we could grow. Today we still grow most of what we sell, and the rest comes from a small circle of neighbouring growers who farm the way we do and agree to our grading rules.
Because the same team grows, cuts, ripens and loads the fruit, there is no middle step where bananas sit in a hot shed waiting for the next truck. A bunch that is cut in the morning is dehanded, washed and in the ripening room the same day.
That short chain is the whole point. It is why our fruit holds its colour on your shelf for longer, and why we can tell you exactly where each crate came from.
Three supply formats cover almost every buyer we work with. Mix them on one order if you need to.
Full bunches cut at the right fullness, for traders and stalls that hang and sell by the hand. Each bunch is checked for finger fill, scarring and stem rot before it leaves the field.
Hands cut from the bunch, washed, graded by size and packed into reusable crates. This is the format supermarkets and busy shops prefer because it goes straight onto the display.
Hard green fruit at stage 1 for buyers who run their own ripening room or need fruit to travel a long way.
Five steps, the same every time. You always know which one your order is on.
Call or send the enquiry form with variety, quantity, delivery day and the ripening stage you want on arrival.
The field team walks the rows and tags bunches that will reach the right fullness for your delivery date.
Bunches are cut in the cool of the morning, carried out on padded shoulders, dehanded and washed to remove latex.
Fruit goes into the ripening room with a target stage on its card. We check colour twice a day and adjust temperature as needed.
Crates are counted, labelled and loaded on the agreed day. You get a call when the truck leaves the farm.
Our customers sell bananas every day. They need the same quality on the fifth order as on the first.
Small, frequent deliveries of hands at stage 4 or 5 so the display looks full without waste.
Standing weekly orders, crate counts that match the invoice, and colour that is even across every store.
Fully ripe fruit for desserts, juices and baking, delivered on the morning you need it.
Whole bunches and green fruit by volume, with priority allocation for registered dealers.
If your question is not here, the sales desk answers the phone from early morning, six days a week.
We deliver from twenty crates or ten whole bunches per drop. Smaller shops often share a drop with a neighbouring buyer, and we can help arrange that.
Banana prices move with the weather and the harvest. We offer a fixed price for four-week blocks on standing orders, reviewed before each new block.
Each crate is labelled with the stage it left at and the stage it was ripened toward. If it arrives more than one stage away from what you ordered, tell us within 24 hours.
No. We only grow and sell bananas, including green cooking bananas. That focus is what keeps the quality steady.
Yes. Our crates are reusable. The driver collects empties on the next delivery and the count is noted on your delivery slip.
New customers pay on delivery for the first month. After that, regular buyers can move to weekly settlement by agreement.
Send us the variety, the quantity and the day you need it. We will reply with availability and a price for that week’s harvest.
