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LinkedInBanana Industry Under Pressure, Implies a Huge Plus for Berry Growers
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.
Will the issue of two resistant fungal pathogens in banana production regions of the world mean an improved market for berry growers?
