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Default Re: VICE filmed a 15 min Bit on the Cavendish Monocrop Failure

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Originally Posted by Brebarian View Post
Great video, thanks for sharing.

Monocultures failing are a natural and inevitable result of these kinds of farming practices.

One would think that after the gros michel, banana companies would have learned that lesson, but society's collective memory is short, and it seems if a commercially viable TR4 strain is developed, banana companies are determined to rinse and repeat for a third time.
They got 50 or more years out of it and when/if they get a replacement will greedily go back to doing the same.
Plagues are the hazard of all agriculture. Monoculture makes if worse for sure. Right we are facing a citrus plague and I hope they can engineer citrus that will be resistant to greening disease.
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