Essay About Banana
The banana is a fruit surrounded by an enormous amount of history about its origin.
The banana derives from Southeast Asia, specifically from the jungles of Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, places where bananas are still produced today. The general belief is that in the middle ages Arabs brought the fruit to Africa’s oriental region via Madagascar. The fruit was later transported to the west coast by Portuguese missioners, where the fruit had great success due to the tropical humid environmental conditions (places such as Uganda and Rwanda, that produce a high percentage of the world's crop today). Once it expanded over Africa, the Portuguese missionaries took care of the crop and developed it’s culture in the Canary Islands (Spain). …show more content…
In the late nineteenth century, the increasing demand for the fruit in the US, and specifically bananas, which could be collected throughout the year and be transported during it’s maturation process of 21 days, claimed a large fleet of refrigerated vessels for the transport of fruit , this way small businesses could not compete and therefore the monopolistic trend in the sector deepened.
The “Big Mike” gradually expanded and exact replicas were produced worldwide with the use of clones. Until the 1920’s, where the “Panama plague”, “known as the HIV of banana plantations, —a blight that wilted leaves and infected fruits until the entire plant toppled over and died, usually before it could bear any fruit”, threatened the crops of this variety, eventually extinguishing the entire cultivar in mid-twentieth century. The main problem was the change from polyculture to
Gros Michel Bananas monoculture, in other words, growing a single plant variety worldwide. Where a simple pest is capable of extinguishing a variety if it is not resolved in time, and that's what happened in this case. The world was left without “Gros …show more content…
Keith and Andrew Preston. When their eighty-five tons schooner named, “Telegraph”, and led by Baker, docked at a Jamaican port, to carry bamboo. There he met a local merchant, who offered him a load of green bananas, which he bought for twenty cents a bunch. After arriving in New York harbor, eleven days later, he sold the cargo for in between two and three dollars the cluster. Baker repeated the trip and refueled with green bananas, however, the journey from Jamaica to New York depended on weather conditions and this time he delayed, so they had to throw some of the cargo
The banana derives from Southeast Asia, specifically from the jungles of Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, places where bananas are still produced today. The general belief is that in the middle ages Arabs brought the fruit to Africa’s oriental region via Madagascar. The fruit was later transported to the west coast by Portuguese missioners, where the fruit had great success due to the tropical humid environmental conditions (places such as Uganda and Rwanda, that produce a high percentage of the world's crop today). Once it expanded over Africa, the Portuguese missionaries took care of the crop and developed it’s culture in the Canary Islands (Spain). …show more content…
In the late nineteenth century, the increasing demand for the fruit in the US, and specifically bananas, which could be collected throughout the year and be transported during it’s maturation process of 21 days, claimed a large fleet of refrigerated vessels for the transport of fruit , this way small businesses could not compete and therefore the monopolistic trend in the sector deepened.
The “Big Mike” gradually expanded and exact replicas were produced worldwide with the use of clones. Until the 1920’s, where the “Panama plague”, “known as the HIV of banana plantations, —a blight that wilted leaves and infected fruits until the entire plant toppled over and died, usually before it could bear any fruit”, threatened the crops of this variety, eventually extinguishing the entire cultivar in mid-twentieth century. The main problem was the change from polyculture to
Gros Michel Bananas monoculture, in other words, growing a single plant variety worldwide. Where a simple pest is capable of extinguishing a variety if it is not resolved in time, and that's what happened in this case. The world was left without “Gros …show more content…
Keith and Andrew Preston. When their eighty-five tons schooner named, “Telegraph”, and led by Baker, docked at a Jamaican port, to carry bamboo. There he met a local merchant, who offered him a load of green bananas, which he bought for twenty cents a bunch. After arriving in New York harbor, eleven days later, he sold the cargo for in between two and three dollars the cluster. Baker repeated the trip and refueled with green bananas, however, the journey from Jamaica to New York depended on weather conditions and this time he delayed, so they had to throw some of the cargo