Did u know about banana
Banana
There are over 500 varieties of banana today.
This means that if you ate a different kind
of banana each day, you would take almost
a year and a half to eat every last one! In
fact, about 99.5% of banana-eaters in the world are eating varieties
of banana that have been selected by farmers and haven’t changed in
centuries. But wait: not all bananas are edible!
In any case, bananas are loved and eaten the world over. East
Africans, and Ugandans in particular, eat around 450 kg (992.1
lbs) per person per year. In East Africa, the word for bananas is
“matooke,” which also means “food.”
Bananas may be valuable, but there are many problems involved
in their cultivation. For instance, almost all cultivated bananas are
seedless and sterile. This means that they can’t be grown from seeds.
Banana plants also take up to 18 months to fruit, which makes them
even harder to breed.
If those problems aren’t big enough, consider the fact that bananas
can get sick, too. An illness of bananas called Black Sigatoka can cut a
harvest by as much as 50%. Farmers control the disease by spraying
banana crops with fungicide up to 40 times in one growing season.
Did you know…
Tissue cultured bananas are currently helping farmers in Tanzania
and Kenya in improving their banana crop.
There are over 500 varieties of banana today.
This means that if you ate a different kind
of banana each day, you would take almost
a year and a half to eat every last one! In
fact, about 99.5% of banana-eaters in the world are eating varieties
of banana that have been selected by farmers and haven’t changed in
centuries. But wait: not all bananas are edible!
In any case, bananas are loved and eaten the world over. East
Africans, and Ugandans in particular, eat around 450 kg (992.1
lbs) per person per year. In East Africa, the word for bananas is
“matooke,” which also means “food.”
Bananas may be valuable, but there are many problems involved
in their cultivation. For instance, almost all cultivated bananas are
seedless and sterile. This means that they can’t be grown from seeds.
Banana plants also take up to 18 months to fruit, which makes them
even harder to breed.
If those problems aren’t big enough, consider the fact that bananas
can get sick, too. An illness of bananas called Black Sigatoka can cut a
harvest by as much as 50%. Farmers control the disease by spraying
banana crops with fungicide up to 40 times in one growing season.
Did you know…
Tissue cultured bananas are currently helping farmers in Tanzania
and Kenya in improving their banana crop.
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