Fruit and vegetable grower Costa Group Holdings' Tasmanian operations will be fine, despite speculation about the wider company's outlook.
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That is the view of Tasmanian agricultural consultant Jan Davis.
"Tassie will be fine," Ms Davis said on Thursday.
"Berries are a solid investment.
"Some of the stuff is a bit more more risky, commodity products like tomatoes."
Costa was placed in a share trading halt at its request on Monday at its request, pending an announcement about its trading outlook expected by Wednesday morning.
The ASX on Wednesday granted the company a voluntary suspension from official quotation of its shares after Costa said it was not in a position to make the announcement.
Costa expected the suspension would be needed for up to five trading days,
There is speculation Costa will announce another downgrade of its profit guidance and potentially seek to raise capital.
The company's share price has tumbled in recent months, dropping from $5.88 on May 1 to $3.46 on Monday.
There is talk it might become a takeover target amid strong foreign interest in Australian agricultural assets which has led to a Chinese takeover bid for Bellamy's Australia and a Canadian bid for Webster Limited.
"They (Costa) are certainly one of the biggest profile businesses around in the sector and there is huge interest in Australian food production companies from overseas," Ms Davis said.
"There's all sorts of international expenditure going on around the place based on the fact we've got to eat and we do it (agriculture) very well."
She said Australia's agricultural assets had been under-priced and Australian superannuation funds had only started looking at them in the last couple of years.
"The predominant reason is Australians don't value their food; we don't think it's important," Ms Davis said.
"We've never been hungry; we can have whatever we want 24 hours a day.
"Food consumers in other countries actually value their food."
Costa describes itself as Australia's leading grower, packer and marketer of premium quality fresh fruit and vegetables.
It has a range of operations in Tasmania, mostly in the North-West, and on the mainland and interests overseas.
Its main produce categories are berries, mushrooms, tomatoes, citrus, table grapes, bananas and avocados.
