The rains heavily damaged Damaging the sugar cane and banana crops , and overall damage Damaging in the country was estimated at $ 362 million ( 1996 USD ) .

Many streets and several hundred acres of sugar cane fields were flooded Destroying .

At least 75 % of the banana crop was destroyed Destroying , and damage to the sugar cane farms was expected to cost Cost about AU $ 500 million .

Bejisa left heavy damage Damaging to the agriculture industry , mainly to vanilla and sugar cane , totaling €62 million ( US $ 84.8 million ) in losses Earnings_and_losses .

In addition , approximately 80 % of sugar cane crops were damaged Damaging .

Overall , the cyclone Catastrophe caused Causation $ 86.4 million in agriculture-related damages Damaging , with sugar cane and banana harvests suffering the most .

In the aftermath of the cyclone Catastrophe , the Australian government distributed Dispersal financial and emergency aid Assistance , offering to provide Supply assistance Assistance to hard-hit banana and sugar cane farmers in northern Queensland .

The system also washed Motion away a railway bridge on Vanua Levu that was used Using to take Removing sugar cane to Labasa 's mills , leaving growers no choice but to go Self_motion through the village of Korowiri .