Sunday, January 9, 2011

Bananas, Banana, Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana

Banana is a tall tropical grass, that was first grown  (according to some important but unconfirmed research) about 7-10 000 years ago in Papua New Guinea. Bananas also serve like vegetables ( flower and heart), food containers and plates (leaves) , as well as a source of fiber both  for textile and paper industries. Japan cultivated bananas for this purpose since 13th century.  Europeans first seen bananas cultivated in India  in Alexander the Great's expedition of 327 BC. India is still  the largest producer  with  26 217 000 tons produced in 2008.
Today world produces 95 595 965  tonnes of bananas (2009) leaving a potential consumer with  13.86 kg  (30.82 lbs) of bananas to consume, or about 2 bananas per week.
 That's enough to last you 4.5 days, more if you are ready to eat  10 pounds of banana peels (yes they are edible, though I'm not sure what your palate might think about this idea). Just one medium-seized banana will supply your body with 22%  of your daily needs of Vitamin B6 , 17% of Vitamin C, 16% of Manganese, 12 % of Potassium and 8% of Magnesium, among many other things. Please remember to keep this fruit out of the refrigerator, temperatures below 12 degrees will destroy it.
Panama disease is supposed to devastate all commercial growers within 20 years  so  enjoy them while they last.
Worldwide, banana crop could feed  82.5 million people (at 2000 calories a day), or  entire populations of Germany and Bhutan combined.This crop has enough protein for about 50-52 million people.



4 843 595 hectares were used for banana production in 2009, a territory similar to Dominican Republic. That is about 3.12% of all permanent crop land in the world.

Bananas cost around $500-800 per ton.  Retail prices in USA hover around  $0.5-$.6 per pound. Organic bananas  cost about 15 -30  cents more, though I doubt there is much difference poison-wise.
World crop is about $50-60 billion worth.
Piesan Saging


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production by country


Algeria
Bananas
200 200F M
American Samoa
Bananas
790 790F M
Angola
Bananas
300000 300000F M
Antigua and Barbuda
Bananas
220 220
M
Argentina
Bananas
182000 182000F 182000F
Australia
Bananas
213193207061270393
Bahamas
Bananas
3750 3750
3750F
Bahrain
Bananas
1000 1000F M
Bangladesh
Bananas
1004520877123M
Barbados
Bananas
720 720F 720F
Belize
Bananas
66000 6805368070
Benin
Bananas
14000 14500F M
Bermuda
Bananas
330F 363 M
Bhutan
Bananas
39743974F M
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Bananas
182490182490F M
Brazil
Bananas
709835069981507193189
British Virgin Islands
Bananas
360F 360F M
Brunei Darussalam
Bananas
800F 800F M
Burundi
Bananas
1850000 1850000F M
Cambodia
Bananas
130000 130000F M
Cameroon
Bananas
820000 820000F 820000F
Cape Verde
Bananas
6800 6800F M
Cayman Islands
Bananas
210 210F 210F
Central African Republic
Bananas
120000 120000F 120000F
China
Bananas
803838580427028207702F
Colombia
Bananas
181987419876032020393
Comoros
Bananas
70000F 70000F 70000F
Congo
Bananas
87000 88000F M
Cook Islands
Bananas
60 60F M
Costa Rica
Bananas
2350000
2127000F 2127000F
Côte d'Ivoire
Bananas
360000F 360000F M
Cuba
Bananas
385900280800245400
Cyprus
Bananas
710056505770
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bananas
314920315470M
Dominica
Bananas
20000F 20000F M
Dominican Republic
Bananas
495678439569M
Ecuador
Bananas
600230267011467637324
Egypt
Bananas
94542910624531100000F
El Salvador
Bananas
65000F 65000F M
Equatorial Guinea
Bananas
20000 20000F M
Ethiopia
Bananas
250000F 261059194333*
Fiji
Bananas
285284263409
French Guiana
Bananas
4500 4500F M
French Polynesia
Bananas
800F 800F M
Gabon
Bananas
13000F 13000F 13000F
Ghana
Bananas
57500F 57500F M
Greece
Bananas
35863600F 3600F
Grenada
Bananas
13361336F M
Guadeloupe
Bananas
40181* 40181F M
Guam
Bananas
350F 350F M
Guatemala
Bananas
15694601569460F M
Guinea
Bananas
160000F 162000F M
Guinea-Bissau
Bananas
5200F 5200F M
Guyana
Bananas
58925892F M
Haiti
Bananas
295000295000F M
Honduras
Bananas
690479690503690625
India
Bananas
2382300026217000M
Indonesia
Bananas
545422657413526273056
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Bananas
101000113366M
Israel
Bananas
1308148518693510
Italy
Bananas
400F 350F 350F
Jamaica
Bananas
125000F 125000F M
Japan
Bananas
205F 205F M
Jordan
Bananas
349104154043834
Kenya
Bananas
593370* 593370F M
Kiribati
Bananas
5800F 5800F M
Kuwait
Bananas
M M M
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Bananas
48000F 48000F M
Lebanon
Bananas
8970089700F M
Liberia
Bananas
120000F 120000F M
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Bananas
M M M
Madagascar
Bananas
325000F 325000F M
Malawi
Bananas
390000F 390000F M
Malaysia
Bananas
530000F 600000F 625000F
Maldives
Bananas
8910F 8210* 4340*
Mali
Bananas
136898140000F M
Martinique
Bananas
300000F 300000F M
Mauritius
Bananas
90261046310920
Mexico
Bananas
19645452159280M
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Bananas
2100F 2100F M
Montserrat
Bananas
160F 160F M
Morocco
Bananas
201802214712220000F
Mozambique
Bananas
90000F 90000F M
Nepal
Bananas
532577679288849
New Caledonia
Bananas
168512561145
Nicaragua
Bananas
4439136285M
Niue
Bananas
80F 80F M
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Bananas
61605120M
Oman
Bananas
2889228892F M
Pakistan
Bananas
157962159378M
Panama
Bananas
545162357861M
Papua New Guinea
Bananas
940000F 940000F M
Paraguay
Bananas
46000F 5832158840
Philippines
Bananas
748407386876249013186
Portugal
Bananas
30000F 30000F M
Puerto Rico
Bananas
53500F 53500F M
Republic of Korea
Bananas
M M M
Réunion
Bananas
600010000* M
Rwanda
Bananas
50F 50F M
Saint Lucia
Bananas
40000F 43798M
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Bananas
51000F 51000F M
Samoa
Bananas
23000F 23000F M
Sao Tome and Principe
Bananas
32000F 32000F M
Senegal
Bananas
320004000040500F
Seychelles
Bananas
2000F 2000F M
Singapore
Bananas
M M M
Solomon Islands
Bananas
330F 330F M
Somalia
Bananas
38000F 38000F M
South Africa
Bananas
345749393141373637
Spain
Bananas
358177383700384000F
Sudan
Bananas
74000F 74000F M
Suriname
Bananas
7108488724M
Swaziland
Bananas
5000F 5000F M
Syrian Arab Republic
Bananas
800F 800F M
Thailand
Bananas
192928415404761528082
Timor-Leste
Bananas
2000F 2000F M
Togo
Bananas
19000F 19500F M
Tokelau
Bananas
15 15F M
Tonga
Bananas
840 840F M
Trinidad and Tobago
Bananas
7000
7000F M
Turkey
Bananas
189107201115204517
Tuvalu
Bananas
280 280F M
Uganda
Bananas
615000 615000F M
United Arab Emirates
Bananas
200 200F M
United Republic of Tanzania
Bananas
3500000 3500000F M
United States of America
Bananas
1161278936985
United States Virgin Islands
Bananas
M M M
Vanuatu
Bananas
14500 14500F M
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Bananas
512187383836M
Viet Nam
Bananas
1355000 1355000F M
Wallis and Futuna Islands
Bananas
4300 4300F M
Yemen
Bananas
120370128796132418
Zambia
Bananas
700F 700F M
Zimbabwe
Bananas
95000F 95000F M
World + (Total)
Bananas
89413104A 93390721A 95595965A

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