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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
The fact Nick owns a
Banana Nursery only elevates his importance.
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I am sure I rank real high on their importance list. The interest in "standard" bananas from me comes from some political maneuvering that happened in the state capitol a few years ago. The Department of Agriculture runs the school lunch program and they have been spending money trying to source produce for school lunches locally. After a few conversations with some people, I learned that the school boards would love to have local bananas, if they were available. I did some more research into it and found out that within a 2 hour drive there were over 800K students in public school. There are upwards of 400k bananas served in the schools every day. So there is a ready market for a little over 2600 boxes of bananas daily within 2 hours of my house. The school year is 180 days, so you have a little over $8 million being spent on bananas during the school year. A real solid variety and good growing practices could keep that money local. Once you have a solid production base, you can start marketing to grocery stores as well.