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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Isn't the fundamental problem that if you want that cheap banana you can now buy in every grocery store, crop management MUST be lazy? If you can't plant big monocultured fields, you can't put a cheap banana on the shelves of the supermarket in Iowa or Ireland. Unless these consumers are willing to pay more for that exotic, tropical fruit, grown thousands of miles away from their supermarket, GMO bananas will be pretty appealing to the big banana growing syndicates.
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We have several disease resistant varieties that could be planted. They could easily plant FHIA-2, FHIA-17, and FHIA-23. I sold 30 lbs of Goldfinger fruit in 2 hours at the market last week. People loved it. I just don't buy the transnationals answer that people only want a cavendish. I think the whole system is set to deliver Cavendish, but the system could be tweaked over the next decade to start delivering the FHIA varieties.