Bye Bye Bananas
A few years ago I read an article in the newspaper or online that said bananas were sentenced.
We are well-liked in the ten-year period that a special story declared in court. What do we want to see in stores if this should be true?
We could first expect the price you pay for the bananas to shoot a rocket in price.
So where are we today?
Well, let's see … "The price of bananas has increased" but no excessive price increase. We can also see that over the entire banana market and supply has not been missed in a storage cartridge either.
With Northern Americans eating more bananas than apples, bananas have become our favorite fruit. So much so that a study has concluded that we will eat about 10-12,000 bananas before reaching the age of 40.
So were the reports of bananas very exaggerated? Probably not.
A report from Uganda a few weeks back was the title of "bananas in danger". The account continued to say that the disease, which first discovered in Uganda in 2001, is called Banana Bacterial Wilt or BBW.
If you can not find a cure, fear that bananas may become extinct.
Bananas are big funds for harvest for farmers and people based on banana crops for their livelihoods, and both humans and animals rely on as a traditional diet.
Blight has also been found under the news Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Indonesia. North America gets most of its bananas from Central America, but it has not been a big hit yet.
The tag or species of bananas we eat are Cavendish and worldwide we eat about 100 billion bananas a year. Because the bananas are genetic as they have come from plants, which can affect one species of bananas can affect them all.
The report also states that these bananas we eat today are not as diverse back in 1960. On that day, the variety name Gros Michel appears.
They also say that Gros Michel has a better taste. Of course today depends on people who have actually eaten both varieties. I have eaten bananas in Africa, America, Canada and the UK. I have to say that at least I remember the best bananas I ever ate, they were fresh from the trees in Africa.
Do not worry that it will never happen!
You've heard scientists and the government lost this kind of rhetoric for years. However, these words are borne by those who describe them.
When banana orchards were infected and both orchards and importers fell, many thousands of dollars were destroyed to replant these orchards with a changed Cavendish variety.
When the Gros Michel variety became infected in the 60 years, scientists introduced genetic changes on bananas. Just as scientists have done with wheat and many other seeds, which are intended to be resistant to the strain that affected Gros Michel.
This genetically modified variety became Cavendish, which is believed to be resistant to Panama's version of blight. But as has been seen worldwide in many other viruses and models, they tend to change genetic changes.
In recent years, varieties have been found in blight and have been severely detrimental in many countries. Some plantations in Malaysia have been completely wiping out, and in recent years it has also infected Africa.
Human nature said, what happened to Gros Michel can not happen with GM-cavendish. But guess what?
Yes! It started to infect Cavendish too!
What did the scientist say? Do not worry, be working on it!
Scientists have been working hard, and they have created some varieties of banana, from many varieties. The problem is that the new varieties just do not have the same flavor, so far. It seems that bananas are naturally heavy in seeds but little in sweets.
While it seems that we could not find a pinch of a shortage of goods available in great markets, it should be noted that Malaysian plantations went
So we should wonder what The last call will be made for the banana.
Banana crop is still a threatening fruit, and we have to wait, yes wait to see if we can win this threat. But we must realize that many in southern countries are at least able to adapt to loss of nutrition and income, are already suffering.
