Submitted by Penguin Blog (USA) Visitor (not verified) on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 3:35pm.
Actually, after a recent visit to St. Vincent & the Grenadines in the Caribbean, where bananas are a primary export, I learned that the switch in banana varieties was due to a blight that the Gros Michel was susceptible to. Actually, the blight was ravishing pretty much the whole banana producing world, making it impossible to continue producing it in any quantity. The cavendish was chosen as a variety resistant to the disease that seemed to be the best compromise between quality and producibility (sp?).
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Variety switch due to blight
Actually, after a recent visit to St. Vincent & the Grenadines in the Caribbean, where bananas are a primary export, I learned that the switch in banana varieties was due to a blight that the Gros Michel was susceptible to. Actually, the blight was ravishing pretty much the whole banana producing world, making it impossible to continue producing it in any quantity. The cavendish was chosen as a variety resistant to the disease that seemed to be the best compromise between quality and producibility (sp?).