Panama disease making a comeback - Page 2

island cassie · 06-05-2008, 07:41 PM

After TS Noel and Olga, the plantain and banana crops were devastated here and are only just starting to recover, so lets hope for a quiet hurricane period this year. The bananas are selling at about the usual price (3 pesos each), but plantains have nearly doubled in price to 5 or 6 pesos each finger, and the good news is that people are planting plantains and bananas everywhere to make up the shortfall - but of course it takes time!! If one of the virulant diseases infected the crops here it would be disasterous as we need to supply Haiti and a goodly part of the rest of the caribbean with foodstuffs that they cannot grow themselves. Plus the fact that most of the produce is organic because the farmers cannot afford pesticides etc - i for one am happy to accept gnarly but tasty veg - and the eggs are wonderful but small.

I love this island
Cassie

Bananaman88 · 06-05-2008, 08:26 PM

Pretty impressive list, Lorax!

Bananachris · 06-12-2008, 07:13 PM

I am grateful to find this thread here. Because 35 year ago I ate Gros Michel. That was a banana!! In this moment we have only Cavendish as an alternative, because the world wide banana market is domited by 4 to 5 companies. Two years ago I ate some Gros Michel in Ecuador. They were lovely and I was remembered to my youth and I am started to think an investigate about reactivation of Gros Michel production. Maybe someone is interested in diskussing this!

lorax · 06-13-2008, 10:34 AM

Chris - what did they call the Gros Michel when you ate it? I have the sneaking suspicion that what I buy in the market as <> are in fact GMs - they remind my mom of the bananas she ate as a girl.

Bananachris · 06-14-2008, 10:56 AM

Lorax, they called them just bananas in Germany. Only the specialist called them Gros Michel. As I made in 1992 a project in the banana terminal in Hamburg, the old workman talked about Gros Michel as better banana then Cavendish. The last time I ate them in Machala, 2 years ago.

lorax · 06-14-2008, 11:45 AM

Bet they are the same ones - in Ecuador we have 30 some-odd names for bananas depending on size, shape, colour, and breed.

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