Just doing the usual weekend reading and came across this gem in The Economist:
Seems banana producers down south are facing serious challenges from two pathogenic fungi. One pathogen has become resistant to the fungicide complex used to control it and a strain of the other pathogen has overcome the resistance to it by the most widely planted banana variety.
Not that I would ever be happy about the travails of fellow agriculturists, but knowing that bananas are far and beyond the most consumed fruit by Americans (33 lbs/year well beyond the second place apples at 16 lbs/year), the big rise in price of bananas that this impending disease induced reduction in supply implies means an improved market for berries - which are pretty widely consumed in the USA already.
Interesting stuff.
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