Industrial Monoculture Leading to the Extinction of Bananas
(NaturalNews) When too much of the same crop is grown in the same fields year after year, soils become depleted of vital nutrients and healthy bacteria, which allows for diseases to easily thrive and spread. And the global supply of bananas — at least the kind sold in most major grocery stores — could become a thing of the past thanks to a deadly, monoculture-induced banana disease that has already wiped out banana crops across Southeast Asia.
Industrial monoculture leading to the extinction of bananas
HERE Friday, November 25, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
It is called Race IV fungus, or “the HIV of banana plantations,” and it thrives in monoculture soils like the ones that grow Cavendish bananas, the type most commonly grown and sold internationally. Though there are thousands of other varieties of bananas in existence, many of which have a much better flavor and texture, large growers and exporters have stuck with the Cavendish variety because it ships well, and is said to be more visually appealing.
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