Banana production under threat | BBC News

From a mix of adverse weather, soaring production costs and plant disease - the production of bananas is under threat.
Pascal Liu, senior economist at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, said climate impacts posed an "enormous threat" to supply.
So, what can be done to make the banana industry more sustainable?
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[@liveontheverandah]

Pay the farmers properly - stop the supermarkets inflating the prices

[@susanb4816]

Make food not for profit and stop corporate farming

[@siva36_11]

Moon Matrix: Decode Banana

[@samsmith2635]

Get organized crime out of produce distribution and the farmers would receive more money for their product.

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

@@susanb4816 Processed food is fine to operate for profit. But basic things like fruit, vegetables and bread shouldn't be inflated beyond the means of purchase.

[@ascgazz7347]

‘Fix climate change’ not even on the list?

[@samsmith2635]

I have a banana tree growing right outside my window. They grow very fast.. Problem with the produce industry is there are TOO many middle men.

[@TheBooban]

I would say too little. Farmers often remain poor because they sell to a monopoly. But yeah, along the way to us, alot of hands need to be paid, but they wouldn’t take so much if there was competition.

[@robertskolimowski7049]

Ha, I thought so, this problem exists probably everywhere in agriculture, bloody greedy middlemen😣

[@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS]

I find it fascinating that billions apon billions of banana have been cloned for decades.

[@hannaht2068]

This problem exists everywhere, bloody Pure greed.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

​@@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERSnot in my tropical country. there are many kind of bananas here. 🎉🎉

[@RatKindler]

Bananas are so cheap. A bunch costs about the same as a small cup of coffee here.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

where do you live?

[@RatKindler]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 In Canada

[@RayHaffenden]

There are over 20 varieties of banana in the Philippines alone, but only see a couple on the market here in the U.K.

[@tonys1636]

There is only 1 variety grown and sold as a fruit, the Cavendish, many of the others are not sweet and sold as vegetables, plantains or just too small.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

​@@tonys1636in the west, that is. here in southeast asia there are many kind of bananas, with different size, taste, etc.

[@missdebbie100]

Here on the Greek island of Crete there are two types of bananas available. They are the usual large bananas that are on sale in most western supermarkets or the locally grown small bananas. The smaller bananas are grown here on the island so they have a much smaller carbon footprint when it comes to transportation. Even better, they taste so much better than the large bananas that are on sale in most western nations. The banana crisis is a direct result of the large growers creating a monopoly on bananas.

[@samsmith2635]

Bananas don't have a carbon footprint like that, the industry has but the banana tree big or small are carbon sinks....

[@AceLTC]

香蕉是​经济作物而非生态作物，这或许让它成为碳源而非碳汇@@samsmith2635

[@TooSlowTube]

@@samsmith2635 It's transporting them half way around the world that creates the biggest part of their carbon footprint.

[@facitenonvictimarum174]

Bananas are only 27¢ each at my W*Mart, 6 for $1.62, delivered with my groceries to my front door, you cant even buy a candy bar for that.

[@LudiCrust.]

Those are expensive bananas. I get a bunch of 6 for around $1.

[@samsmith2635]

@@LudiCrust. location matters, where are you? I can do the same in Brasil lol

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

"only", but you're not only eating bananas. Presuming you have 3 pieces of fruit per day, that would be £0.75 or so per person. Which is about £275 per year per person on the cheapest fruit piece alone. Not super cheap considering it doesn't provide a significant amount of nutrition.

[@aliceinwonderland6198]

They're like $5 per kg in Australia so about 80c-$1 each

[@tonys1636]

@@user-ds8rj2vc4v They do provide Potassium, not present in many fruits.

[@bats2494]

Senior advisor for bananas. Great job position right there.

[@TooSlowTube]

Top banana woman.

[@TNFVLOGS]

2 dollars a box...i need to go straight to the source to buy some

[@TooSlowTube]

Britain is a now a banana republic, so I'd suggest having a word with Rishi Sunak.

[@agustinprunell-friend7040]

Canary Islands bananas don't seem to be affected by this

[@alfeguminang8922]

Banana plantations in the phillipined,are blooming in thier productions, especially in mindanao island.

[@andredecaires2]

I live in Saint Lucia. I was a manager who worked on a banana plantation from 1988 to 1995. The introduction of the WTO was one of the biggest disasters that hit our industry. We were made to compete with huge American multinationals in South America like Chiquita, Dole, Del Monte etc. How could we survive? We did not. Smfh

[@tonys1636]

I just paid €1.67kg for bananas today, that's €33.40 for a box, yes they had been shipped from South America but who's getting the bulk of the money?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

the cartels.

[@life107familyfitnessboxing8]

$2 PER BOX IS SHOCKING!!!

[@samsmith2635]

it is, that is like 4$ a tree....

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

That's if we take her comment as fact. There's also reason to not believe her. And how many packs of bananas in a box? We need more information. Could be only 6 packs of 6 to a crate. Could be 600, we just don't know and the numbers she's throwing out are meaningless without evidence and context.

[@mollyhoux2470]

@@user-ds8rj2vc4vbut what she’s saying is that it costs $8 to produce a box and the growers are getting paid not even half the cost of production. That is the true issue.

[@taurus-eg5xu]

Bananas are definitely getting shipped in to Britain

[@moroniafrifa614]

I love how she spoke!

[@toomignon]

She's been waiting all day for that intro. 😂

[@khalidhassan9705]

0:40 she knows all about bananas sounds so strange 😂

[@mobilephil244]

With that Gigantic demand volume, this problem CANNOT be all that hard to solve .. and yes, we may well need to pay a bit more for them.

[@marcinhibner9507]

Banana milk shakes with fruit of choice are the best but it also depends on amounts ratios and ripe time moment of the fruit.

[@echomike78]

news are totally bananas these days

[@UltraPerception]

Well done indeed

[@robertpearson8798]

Thanks a bunch for this report.

[@susanb4816]

Wont be a-peeling much longer

[@lvst_nghtlonnie1877]

Fair price!

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

Friendly reminder the EU doesnt' allow my country (Portugal;: from Madeira) to export bananas because "they are too small".

[@jameswilsoncomedy444]

We need to do everything we can to help the banana farmers and keep the prices down

[@hshshghdxfhxhsvhxd-jz1dt]

I from the Uzbekistan here price banana $2 for 1 kg.

[@jeganjj9042]

I am from India .here we get 1 Kg banana for 1 dollar in Tamilnadu, Kaniyakumari District

[@beewa8840]

Just got back from Sainsbury's where a bunch (5) of medium sized Fairtrade bananas is 78p. How is that possible? 😮

[@ST-fl9ek]

She knows all about bananas

[@CapAnson12345]

Bananas are fine. I saw one in the store the other day.

[@janetramon7087]

Not scarce in my part of the world. Stores are packed full of bananas.

[@marcinhibner9507]

Green skin color bananas with just a bit only abit some yellow is the best and has more vatamins more healthier. Greener is better but that's also depends on time day and when all yellow sugar loaded should be taken and when you should consume it and the best times are earlier not before bed or afternoons.

[@01novaa31]

Chile, Nymphia Wind done already done had herses.

[@marcinhibner9507]

The tastiest Bananas are the smaller ones more of flavour and hints of other taste notes in Europe and even tastier more flavourful with stronger accents of other fruit like mixed fruit milkshakes but they have that extra yaamy on taste don't get sold abroad well most likely wealthiest that can pay shipping and extra extra pay to get them anywhere for a extra price.

[@michaelhurley3171]

At least I got one in my pants. It's about a foot long, so I've been told!

[@BionicPig95]

*unzips pants* “My time to shine”

[@phantomgaming563]

Wanna play with my banana🤨🥴🥴

[@user-oe8vv8cb1t]

I wish I could know Google has there comment on a video before I click.

[@roeuth]

A topic with a peel, don’t think that one went over my head, I’m on to you.

[@lauralafauve5520]

Those middle men need to stop gouging producers and consumers.

[@fightersingh3113]

She know all the Bananas 🍌 🤓😁😂🤣 I am sorry I didn't mean that 😂

[@dechend3198]

I can’t live without banana❤

[@robertguildford]

Yes,I have been friends with a banana grower in Australia. Like any commodity prices go up and down. When there is dirth prices are high, when there is plenty the prices are low. 2$ a box is probably the bottom end of the price range. It would have been more helpful to the audience to give the price at the top end of the market. That way opinion can be probably formed. However as is the case with all media, they presentation is never balanced.

[@desperadochrome5950]

We in st Vincent was providing bananas for England 🇬🇧 and the stop buying cause of low production cause the island isn't big enough but out banana are organic and a earlier type our soil is volcanic we grow without fertilizer or we make our fertilizer natural as always so u see the counterfeit will always come to an end 😉

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

Shareholders need to apply more pressure to the mega-supermarket chains they invest in… pay fairer prices to producers. Worker exploitation by proxy is not sustainable.

[@Silvergum]

you see this all over the world the distributors take the majority of the producers profit margins

[@jeganjj9042]

I am from India .here we get 1 Kg banana for 1 dollar in Tamilnadu, Kaniyakumari District.

[@MarcosFernandezRobles]

Canary Islands have a lot.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

banana republic.

[@CarolinaOmaSteph]

$2-$3 a box, I pay alot more than that for a small bunch at the grocery stores. Someone is ripping the farmers & harvesters off. Weather modification companies in certain regions are showing long term damaging effects on trees and plant life.

[@jayryia]

Logistics have a lot to do with that. transport, duties, quality standards, taxes and all in between is what inflates prices so much for the consumer. Maybe the day where teleportation becomes a standard in the world where fuel prices and ship/ aircraft costs aren't a factor as well as greedy profiteers that sometimes force the market to follow suit, maybe prices will improve for all, especially in cases where a 3rd world country has to import.

[@Kevin-be1ou]

So how do they develop healthier soils to improve production? Monoculture certainly doesn't help. What about disease?

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

Diversification is also critical, grow them in community gardens, grow diverse varieties

[@hshshghdxfhxhsvhxd-jz1dt]

Announcer very beatiful and nice girl saed very understanding.

[@aaronjay4118]

This’ll drive me.

[@interestingchannel4759]

What is the meaning of "this will drive me"

[@aaronjay4118]

@@interestingchannel4759 it’s a dreadful joke don’t worry

[@interestingchannel4759]

@@aaronjay4118 i just ask about the meaning bcz i am learning english language

[@nigeru.]

そんなバナナ

[@queenelsa6974]

sonna banana 😂

[@somayyamughal8313]

😢

[@4grammaton]

bring back Gros Michel

[@leperuvien8237]

Ecuador is the most who's producting and for a cheap value

[@NullTube404]

Which type of banana, we have 3 types

[@JeffreyGoddin]

Cavendish variety specifically is vulnerable to the fungus.

[@millevenon5853]

BBC

[@signsofplay]

What are those black crunchy dots in the center of bananas lately?

[@titteryenot4524]

Microchips. Klaus. 🤫

[@BenWillock]

seeds

[@adventuresofanathan]

Seeds

[@Kwippy]

They are microchips made by Fauci and Bill Gates obviously.

[@smeeagain3102]

@@titteryenot4524🤣

[@alfeguminang8922]

Philippines

[@horaciokanashiro-hv2zn]

My 2¢: a) Beside climate change and fair pricing, a big threat on the (world) BANANA is a fungi which has no efective preventive method today, this is vital because almost 100% of the world bananas are Cavendish, yes we put all bananas in a single basket. b) Fair pricing isn't new, Banana Republic was born from that situation. Can you believe some producers denounce them for exceding their export quotas. Me: A 🍌 fan, fto. a country that among many things also (proudly) produces bananas.

[@adventuresofanathan]

Everyone needs to grow and farm fruit locally, if Banana's dont grow in your country tough. Just enjoy the fruit and veg grown locally, does better for the local economy.

[@eklim2034]

A-peeling BBC banana news

[@samabrahams7687]

Who else laughed when she said she eats a banana at 3 am 😂 goble goble 😄

[@zacharie-kylepercil4243]

Fact and opinion class heh

[@prince41998]

Gosh not bananas

[@al28854]

bananas must be cheap in tropical England

[@samsung40_media87]

damn, doesn't matter what the subject matter of the story is, I just can't believe the BBC

[@masterlightjames950]

We need to go back to the old ways and stop using toxic expensive fertilisers.

[@stuartwilson7392]

Fertilisers are not toxic, if they were they would not be fertilisers.

[@rizizum]

We can't stop using fertilizers, unless you wanna use all the available land of the world for farming

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!

[@masterlightjames950]

@@stuartwilson7392 they are. That's why you don't know, because you eat food made with them.

[@masterlightjames950]

@rizizum our forefathers didn't do either and they produced the best food.

[@paulmaher7683]

Hey but at least shareholders can keep buying holiday homes, I see no problem here

[@tanzeemfatima3034]

I STAND WITH #FARMERS , RIGHTS ❤

[@dhawthorne1634]

Stop growing a clonal mono-culture. This is how the Gros Michel plantations collapsed, if you have only one type of plant that has been bred into sterility and gets cloned or grafted into massive groves, it only takes a single fungal spore of the right type to wipe out the entire cutivar across an entire geographic area. We are currently repeating the same mistakes with the Cavendish. What plantations need to do is break up their Cavendish with open spaces and smaller plantings of a different variety or a different crop altogether. As for pricing, we can blame that on Eisenhower. The Banana Replublics were facing backlash from the counties they had overthrown and subjugated for over a decade, most of which had taken advantage of their democratic structure to elect leaders that would help the average citizen. Then, right about the time they were going to have to start paying a minimum wage and selling land back to the state and citizens, Eisenhower (at the request of the fruit companies) sent in troops to shoot up all of those "communist regimes" and give power back to the American-held corporations. Even though the companies have not grown beyond needing to be shadow dictatorships manipulating multiple countries to squeeze out profits, Central America is still an absolute mess thanks to all of the corruption that went on for so long.

[@King.Mark.]

always

[@ScoriacTears]

No More Bananas.

[@ScoriacTears]

. . . copy the following into your co pilot or your LLM and see what it coughs up: now Please write a speech about the idea that there soon may be no more bananas and what could be done to prevent such an occurrence?

[@mglsj]

"now finally a topic with appeal in this program"

[@badddkattt]

My KZbin poisoned brain when I see a woman holding a banana as a prop sees it as being a visual metaphor for something else.

[@oneshothunter9877]

You need to go out. Touch grass. See people in real life. Best wishes.

[@shaimaaaljabery]

#كمين_العلم ❤🔻

[@bradleyoneillmusic]

Getting paid peanuts to pick banana's is well...banana's

[@carlakenyon6073]

🙄

[@babananabanana9163]

Stop eating cavendish, theres aton of variety in banana. Also, if your gonna argue the other variety wont last the journey to the western world. then stop eating banana, and start eating your local produce. help your local farmer !

[@sketchups4672]

Thanks ba banana banana!

[@Deadmemefinger]

NOOOOOO BANANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[@interekweb]

My banana knows no crisis 😂

[@catpax6075]

I love bananas 🍌

[@richardzimmermann9372]

Save, freeze, protect plenty of banana seeds for the future. Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes will all be much, much harder to grow in the coming decades.

[@DOWNUNDER.]

House wives everywhere will be sad to hear this

[@user-hv8bp1ll2u]

eat an apple instead...

[@jimcourt9164]

But London is lost .. There was a Palestine flag on every lamppost for the whole London marathon course. BBC going on about bananas, with 2 female experts … of course

[@fazeljigry4896]

I like banana it my favorite food

[@jackiecastillo2484]

No bueno I ❤ banana 🍌

[@iamfennel0607]

バナナまでも値上がりしそう…

[@michaelsmith4663]

No one threatens my banana

[@MajorCharlesCarringtonV.C]

Yes we have no bananas

[@simonscowled9925]

Banana with tea???????????

[@seanlander9321]

No banana worries in Australia where it’s paradise, as usual😊

[@zzz22214]

What else some people do with bananas...

[@David_7171]

Why does google/youtube put a United Nations explanation for this video ????

[@cetGT3]

This world is Bananas

[@andyaclean]

This womans expression always looks like she just sat on one

[@facitenonvictimarum174]

Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH! Daylight come and me wan' go home. Work all night on a drink a'rum Daylight come and me wan' go home Come, Mr. Tallyman, tally me banana Daylight come and me wan' go home.

[@monsters8730]

a topic with a peal, you say?

[@evawilldrive]

Underground Infrastructures in a tectonically safe, weather-proof self-sustainable infrastructures centered around growhouses with plasma lights, wherein everything is recycled: fresh air, nutrients (so everybody who sustains it and lives there is eating organic) from the compost, water. Everything has to be independent from the outside environment, which during catastrophic weather can get quite toxic and unviable in every way. And *mixed crops, so permaculture, organic, ecological food production*. Naturopathy = natural health. Wholistic Health! Maybe I can get a spot in a banana infrastructure that is directly (underground) connected to the cacao infrastructure. Zdravo!