‘I’ll have the muesli, hold the banana’. Source: ThinkStock

If you start the day with banana and honey followed by eggs get set to pay more, although it will take a while to notice the extra.

Last night’s Budget answered calls from agricultural industries for greater funding of biosecurity measures to defend them from imported blights.

Even Australian Post has been brought into the effort and will spend an extra $17.4 million over three years from 2016-17 to manage biosecurity risks in international mail.

But the broadest move came in response to requests from industries which we usually don’t hear much about unless their products are not in the shops.

Levies now totalling just $200,000 a year for three of these industries will rise to $3.4 million for each of the next four years.

The Banana Growers’ Council wants members to contribute 75 cents a kilogram of output to fight banana freckle, a fungus which itself is nasty and discolours the fruit and makes them unappealing to consumers.

The Honey Bee Industry Council wants to pay three cents a kilo to a fund aimed at maintain the health of plants their swarms like.

In a joint effort, the Chicken Meat Federation and the Egg Corporation are prepared to pay 0.03 cents per day-old meat chickens and 1.4 cents for laying chickens to fund prevention of a proven scourge, avian influenza, or bird flu.