Tegan Cavallaro

Tegan is the project leader of the industry’s National Banana Development & Extension Program. Tegan has worked with the banana industry since graduating from university in 2009. Completing an undergraduate degree at James Cook University in Cairns, Tegan commenced her career with the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries working in the field of soil research. Tegan took on the industry development role leading the National Banana Development and Extension Program in 2015. This decision saw her hitting the ground running as this coincided with the first detection of Panama disease tropical race 4 in FNQ. Inherently, she was focused on developing information and facilitating extension of on-farm biosecurity practices at this time. Her role now includes facilitating the industry’s National Banana Roadshows, field walks, workshops, one-on-one extension and undertaking applied field trials on high priority issues to aid adoption of new and emerging practices.