Why The World’s Most Popular Banana May Go Extinct | Big Business
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- Bananas are facing a pandemic, too. Almost all of the bananas exported globally are just one variety called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is vulnerable to a fungus called Panama Disease, which is ravaging banana farms across the globe. If it's not stopped, the Cavendish may go extinct. We visited a farm in Colombia infected with Panama Disease and a lab in the Netherlands studying the fungus to see if biosecurity and breeding can save the $25 billion banana industry.
00:00 Intro
1:22 World's favorite banana
2:51 Banana harvest
5:51 The fungus spreads
8:15 The first extinction
9:13 Could science save bananas?
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I live at Indonesia, i plant several types of Bananas. They all different, but each one has unique than other. Small one is very tasty, but the biggest one is the best to make banana chip. They easy to grow, can plant many variety in small area without problem. The problem is our market.
This is so true. I’m from Argentina and buy national or Brazilian ones because I simply don’t like the artificial flavour of ecuatorian cavendish bananas. The rest of the world needs to be open to new strains of food and be less picky.
@@arianamarasco2158 cavendish is not very popular in my country, we have our favorite banana. We call it 'Pisang Kepuk' or Kepuk Banana, i don't know the official name of this variety.
the problem is mega-corporations poising the food supply with genetically modified "diseases" to kill their competitors
@@jonniefast that’s interesting. you think so?
I know what you mean, in my city there are smaller but fatter bananas. We called it “milk banana” and some of them were wild grown too.
"We have a scientific solution, but not a political one" -- well said.
GMO shouldn’t be political, if so, medicine as a whole should be regulated, and I don’t see that happening.
@@billhoang9842 are you referring to someone else?
Might be RUclips servers messing up, we can't delete comments (the video owner can, though)
And I actually see your comment just now (it wasn't there before)
@@billhoang9842 btw in reply to your comment about GMO shouldn't be political: it shouldn't be, but sadly it is. There's a popular opinion that GMO is bad. In this day and age, perception is what matters most, and people tend to follow the popular opinion.
One day, when thr cavendish is extinct, we may realize that GMO is the best option.
@@billhoang9842
If GMO isn’t regulated and many different things halted by Politics. Who will be here destroying the earth more?
I didn’t realize there are hundreds of types of bananas, it would be cool seeing different varieties in stores
Yes, they are all part of a family called Musa. There are also Dessert bananas and Cooking bananas
we ate various version of bananas in asia, some turn into chips, some fried with fritter, some used for cooking, all use different bananas each of them have their best use, i doubt that we really care about cavendish disappearing lol
There ARE different varieties in stores. Maybe you should try going into stores that specialize in produce. Or maybe they're not in your region but they exist. It's a big world.
I would love being able to buy them, we've been looking for blue bananas for a while!
*I also have a lot of bananas where I grow, but this much is scary*
If you’re not depending on the Cavendish banana you’ll be perfectly fine. The problem is the industry depends on one banana for everything to sell for for tempera region markets which they need to stop doing and start diversifying the bananas plus the first bananas taste better anyways.
They rejected GMO food but at the same time they don’t diversify their consumption. Here in Asia we consume various type of banana & plantains. Depending too much on one variant of plant produce will slowly kill biodiversity.
It’s rather a nice manipulation. You can’t have what they won’t let you (big corp) i never knew there were over 2 types of banana, they hid GMO from us till it was too late, then when people did talk about it in the earlier days, they were called crazy
We never rejected GMO food.
That banana is a GMO.
Here in america... also consume many types of bananas & plantains. "THEY" lol
@@goldtownmma not a GMO... GMOs require modern technology.
they reject gmo, but drink cocacola .. and eat sugars they dont even know where it comes from :D america for you...
I've a banana farm in India but I heard about this TR4 thing for first time. We grow 4 species of bananas including plantain. It's profitable business, nothing goes waste, even stem is used for making compost and leaves as food containers and plates.
There are like 17 types of plantains dude
In India
@@pheonixnova4383 We grow 4 cultivars, butter banana, pink banana, chips banana (plantain)and elaichi banana. We don't grow Cavendish variety.
@@user-kp2ov1gm4w oh like that, I was talking about the plantain having more than 14 species
The stems are used for alot more than just compost
The fruit of the banana grows as a bunch with individual hands forming around the flower stem. In processing the banana hands are divided into smaller sections and boxed for sale to the markets. The Cavendish is also grown in Australia but best by far is what we call the "Ladyfinger". This banana is smaller and visually straighter not so curved. Home growers in Australia are not allowed to grow Cavendish for reasons of disease control.
There was an researcher working for UA (university of Antwerp) that was also researching this. He also noted the requirements of banana cultivation and the places where they are grown and a suggestion arises to use multiple cultivars better suited for that enviroments instead of monocropping cavendish because like the previous monocrop of banana the cavendish its time is numbered
I laughed when she said they're "packing then carefully" while that guy looks like he's stuffing them in that box forcefully
*You HaLLucinate!!!*
Thats how most men like to get it done 😉
When bananas have a green color they get more tougher than a potatoe
@@wesleyesq7306 they hard hard
@@ricky7973 HAHA
If you travel across the equator. theres alot of banana that are immune to TR4, BUT its not exactly appealing to western costumer eyes.
The problem is that westerner only eat banana that has no blackspot on it, and cavendish is the solution.
That's true
Some varieties we have in our country tastes so good but they ripe soon and are not upto the food-beauty standards 😔
It's sad that just because of how they looks, many food which are nutritious and edible are discarded 😔😐
Let them be.
it wont be long until we run out of fresh water that can be wasted on farmland
and we'll see if they still have the audacity to be picky for what they eat.
@@babananabanana9163 ong your name 😭💚
Exactly, in Indonesia we have so many variety of bananas in the market that you can consume in many different way and form. And cavendish yes it's quite pricey than the others but it's not the tastiest banana I ever eat
The problem is that it needs a huge shelf life to arrive abroad on a ship.
Good job Antonio! 😊
Gracias!
Darn diligence. Always getting in the way.
“Oh yeah it’s going extinct” “oh yeah there’s a gmo that’s immune”
"But but gmo bad though"
@Mi p precisely it, people are scared of the "ooo spooky scary meddling with my bananas". They'd rather have no bananas than bananas that cant get infected by a fungus.
@Mi p I thought the second but made it clear I was being sarcastic
@@williamgarcia1417 gmo has it's risks, but a small scale production is fine especially if it's diverse in types and their ready to be modified to work with what's around them when there's something we need.
To much gmo we start to see small health issues relitively quickly, and if there's nothing but gmo for our base diet were either going to see near instant environmental collapse on a bunch of things we rely on or were going to see adaption pile up that we don't want but can't easily change
@@williamgarcia1417 its like litterally everything natural regulated ny politics.
Solar is good, especially in out the the way or rural areas, but awful if we honestly try rely on it entirely while all it takes is some windmills in the right place to balence it while we also maintain gas/careful nuclear where their already being used. Hunting wolves is also good, until we wipe out the local native species wildlife knows how to escape and dropping in wolves in wolf free areas good assuming we drop the right wolf back in instead of one that nothing knows how to evade or regulate
When you go to traditional markets in Indonesia you will find very wide variety of bananas !! Even you'll be confused what to choose because they all tasted so good .
Do you know the pisang tougka langkit?
I love em fried with some honey
Same here in Bangladesh there are lot of varieties, all of them taste better or similar to Cavendish :)
In India too
Philippines too
Great report, thank you!
Damn , I heard about this threat for a couple years. Crazy how it's receiving more light .
Westerners: GMO will eventually eradicate biodiversity
Also westerners: We only eat cavendish bananas
lmao
@@RUclipsPseudonym yeah there’s honestly 0 things wrong with gmos.
@@Squared_Table In Thailand gmos are feared because it could replace the original crops breed due to its benefits, which could make the original one lost forever in the process if farmers prefer the gmos over the originals. ( That is from the government stand point )
@@axe4770 It's a worldwide danger!
Non westerners: We eat rice for every meal
This whole situation is bananas
😂I laughed so hard
Goood one man 🤣🤣
I'm 41 years old and heard this "banana" thing for ages. In the Philippines we have tv show named "Goin Banana's" and it's comedy. Can someone explain to me why bananas are coined with comedy? Aside from being the fruit associated with monkeys, maybe I need some info from anyone here.
@@kordapyo612
Banana-phone
Banana-gun
Banana-we slip on
😂
Thank you for your hard work!!!
This is the best ad for organic produce I’ve ever seen
In the whole video, they keep repeating the Cavendish tastes good and the others not. That's completely and utterly false. The Cavendish is good for the industry, because can ripe during the ship travel. But Cavendish lacks all flavor. For an inexperienced person, that does not know much about fruits and harvest, they only care about beauty and image, but in my own experience if you want sugar content, flavor and a better taste, the "uglier" the better.
There used to be a different kind before more flavorful but that went extinct then we switched to cavendish, banana candy is the OG flavor, we have variety so the plagues don’t matter to anyone but the owners of banana republics
So true hahaha
Totally agree from Jamaica.🇯🇲
Cavendish is the blandest tasting banana of them all. I actually call the Cavendish "7-11 bananas" because in my country they're always sold in 7-11 stores, and they taste as horrible as everything else you can find inside a 7-11 🤣🤣
If you want good bananas the wet/dry market is the place to go.
@@silentknight9356 The Gros Michel variety of banana is not extinct!
It got wiped out in the major growing areas for commercial international shipping, and was replaced by the Cavendish there.
However, some smaller farms still grow Gros Michel bananas. They're just not in enormous quantities for export all over the world. Hence we no longer see them in supermarkets, but in the areas where they are still grown, the Gros Michel is available locally there.
Being born and brought up in Sri Lanka, I have always been spoiled by the ability to choose from dozens of different types of bananas to eat. I cant even imagine getting to eat only the Cavendish (Which is really bland) and even the whole industry depending on it
I've never had any banana but the cavendish banana in my life
@@robert1200 same
I went to Kenya and when I came back I thought it was a change in atmosphere that made me not like the bananas for a few months
I've always wanted to visit Sri Lanka just to taste all those beautiful fruits 😂
If you have tried Lakatan you will realize Cavendish is far inferior. In fact Philipines is second largest exporter of bananas, mainly cavendish, but filipinos don't eat them we prefer lakatan.
Here in Rio de Janeiro Brazil we can easily find 2 types of Bananas on the supermarket.
Banana d'água / nanica (Cavendish)
Banana da terra (Plantain / Cooking bananas)
And those we can find in weekly fruit/vegetable fairs. @Sometimes you can also find those on the supermarket but its rare.
Banana prata (Chunkey Banana).
Banana maça (Manzano Banana / Banana apple)
Banana ouro (Lady Finger / Sugar banana)
They all seedless and teste somewhat similar but the Plantain still retains a little bit of unripe flavor after fully ripened. The biggest difference between them is texture/swiftness. And the Banana apple has a smell that resembles the apple smell.
não adianta Vitor, europeu não sabe comer. Parece que perderam o contato com o solo, o plantio, há tanto tempo que já não pensam que uma fruta não é um produto industrializado de fácil controle dos resultados e que virá com o mesmo padrão sempre.
This Cavendish banana, sold in the US big grocery stores, tastes like sand. So many tasty varieties in tropical countries but hard to export due to short shelf life. Used to 100s of varieties in India 🇮🇳. Every bit of a banana plant is utilized, the fruit, flower, leaf, trunk and even the fibers used to make a string for flower garlands offered for prayers and in weddings. A very versatile plant.
Well said. In India we have wide variety of bananas..
Yeah I agree. I’ve eaten the cavendish all my life having lived in America and you really have to wait for it to be just right for it to taste good. It’s pretty annoying. And considering how all banana flavored candy is based on the flavor of the Gros Michel banana from the early 1900s, I know the banana can taste a lot better than the Cavendish.
Good thing Philippines has a variety of types of banana. When I was younger, we rarely buy cavendish bananas.
They're not tasty no? Only looks good.
@@kmen07 mas masarap pa yung senorita, saba , latundan, and lakatan.
Good thing your country is destroying all its rainforests and in 50 years you probably won’t have anything.
@@shasmi93 i agree with you on that. But for now, we will just enjoy our varieties of bananas
@@kmen07 it looks good also tasty.
My biology teacher talked about this 5 years ago and it's finally happening.
🧢
@@Dante12466 nope. There's scholarly articles about it since the 2000s
@@L3ON360Z yea but I doubt your biology teacher was talking about ut
@@Dante12466 he would always talk about bananas lacking genetic diversity and that they will be wiped out soon. The dude has a PhD in Zoology...
@@L3ON360Z doubt but ok
if any of these Banana plantage workers see this, i will forever remember the hard work u guys does, when i take a bite out of one of these delecious fruits. thank you so much.
This is really impressive
There are literally 1000s of other types bananas that we could eat in its place... and they are seeded not clones.
Yup there're, but rarely one is so well conditioned to be worked on the already build structure, as well transported this way. The cavendish variety may be pretty, but it taste is horrible for me. Here in Brazil, my choice is the "Prata",
Most species of bananas are also cloned to each type aside from bananas with seed.
All bananas have seeds but it is unuseful , they use vegetative propagation to reproduce it's natural
This kind of banana is made by human not by nature
@Cactus Stick yeah, literally bananas are all over the place in my city , there are a lot of varieties also, they also taste sweet, i dont even know what cavendish is until now
In most tropical counties, we have many different types of local bananas as well as imported Cavendish. Think its a lot to do with the Cavendish being breed to be able to "travel", as well as the familiarity westerners have with it.
This video is a BBC news report from two years ago dubbed with an American voice.
I agree, I think it’s the durability of the skin & the color
Yes, it is that durability. Also tbh I hate bananas; all kind of bananas, but cavendish is fine by me because it is not too sweet.
As sad as that sounds and not to point as Americans, we need a diversified are bananas.
These guys have the most soothing voices. Their accents remind me of my childhood.
THANK YOU.
Truth is, "the most popular banana" doesn't taste very good compared to other kinds of banana, so be it.
I’m Colombian and we don’t it that kind , those ones are just for exportation
In the Philippines this banana is for business only and only pigs And monkeys eat this Cavendish.. we don't like it😂
The most popular banana is only so because that is all we can get at most shops.
@@dharyljayparame4189 perhaps you should just type in your language instead of trying to make a cogent argument in English. Surely you dont want to speak the language of "pigs and monkeys" then?
@@activebanans683 .. so what? That's the truth. My comment is not argumentative, isn't it? So what's wrong? We have thousands of dialects but our main language is this😂🤣😅
As a Filipino, there are better banana than that 🍌. Sadly, Western economies choose one than diversity of the bananas.
I would rather have diversity. In north america, we can choose from 10 variety of apple, but we get only 2 bananas... Cavendish and Plantains...
Yeah, most of PH's banana came from local farms or local supermarket's farms. Dole is not the way we used to buy as a go-to banana brand. We just have too many varieties.
Not just Western economies, also our grocery stores, convenience stores cater this banana and "US" we prefer to eat and buy this type of cultivar compare to our local ones.
as an Indonesian, i'm not worried too, ehehe
yeah as an indonesian too, there are like dozens of other variants that is better than cavendish. usually the smaller variants are the most delicious
Amazing solution 👌 👏
GREAT
We just have to unlearn being so picky, so that more variety of fruits will be on the market and less stress on just one fruit type/species. I hardly can find burro bananas in stores.
Hoping I can grow burro bananas soon (we call them Orinoco bananas in the states). I know a nursery with burro banana trees, but nobody who has fruit. They're supposedly very cold hardy and I've heard of people growing them even in the northeast where I live (I wasn't able to get them, but I do have dwarf nam wa which is a variety with a much more complex and sweeter flavor than Cavendish, and they're doing quite well even in our cool climate, so Orinoco may be even hardier.)
I SHOULD BE EATING SUSHI. -Cardi B crying while eating cereal
It's not about being picky, it is about people's ignorance in what GMO really is. Ask 10 people on the street what GMO is and most likely all of them will have no real idea what it actually means and what has been modified. If you told them that they are just more resistant to disease and pests, they probably would not care. People actually think that GMO products will kill you.
That's like saying no unlearn from being picky from an endangered type of animal neglected to die from a virus
Meh its just market preference i guess, i mean you wont die from not eating banana either
Video starts by saying a farmer already fixed the problem, but Europe is picky so the video extends another 10 minutes describing reductions in productivity. 😆
Insider in nutshell.
KFC: loses only one customer
Insider: ThE rIsE aNd Fa-
*NOBODY CARES!!!*
Yes
Thanks i dont have to watch it anymore
@Dave Governments and people are not always the same. You would think a simple label stating the product is a GMO would be enough to allow consumers to decide if they want it.
The US is starting down the road of "protecting people from themselves". Not good times.
Europe? there are more anti-gmo people per capita in the USA compared to Europe
I find it interesting that certain countries are against newly formed GM products, even though your modern banana is purely a product of GM.
The cavendish banana predates GMO tech by about 100 years... try again...
They're against GMO fruits but force their citizens to take MRNa vaccines... Idiotic
@@practicalgardening4631 selective breeding is a form of genetic modification. The distain of genetically modified foods is not based in science. There is no quantified scientific evidence of harm.
@@fishguy911 They are not bred (nowadays). They are clones. Meaning, this is the least amount of genetically modified food since all bananas are genetically identical. The Cavendish Banana is the opposite of genetic modification. The restriction of GM doesn't include breeds that came to life a century ago.
@@fishguy911 true but Industry and corporations absolutely cannot be trusted with any kind of responsibility in any way (except to the short term benefit of the shareholders) and while the science might be okay, the fallible and corrupted human entanglement with the science is what will continue to make most people wary of greenlighting GMO food in any significant way…
I wish I had different types of bananas to choose from honestly, sounds cool. They do it with apples, stonefruit, grapes, tomatoes 🤷♂️
Me who got these kinda banana trees growing in my backyard: "wait, this shit's about to extinct?"
why would you grow cavendish lol
@@Blessingvr it's one of the worst tasting banana varieties
@@Blessingvr because they're mediocre and can be bought literally anywhere for cheap
Technically not about to, but at verrry very hight risk of being about to
@@pinchpeak5203 corporate banana looks good outside nothing inside.
Good thing, we have different varieties of bananas in the Philippines, not only focused on the cavendish variety but we have 11 more varieties of bananas available in the market, namely: Lakatan, Latundan, Saba, Senorita, Lagkitan, Bulkan, Morado, Inabaniko, Bungulan, Tindok, and Utungan. The scientist was correct, you have to have a diversified mindset in terms of banana selection just like those tomatoes in order to survive.
no one asking your banana is full of pests
that's why DOLE don't like your bananas
@@keithhudson2347 DOLE bananas are not that good tbh.. they taste bland compared to our own bananas which is usually sweet.
kalami sa amoang mga saging HAAHAH
We even have red bananas lol
Bananas are very beneficial for health, thank you for your attractive video
It would be great to have a variety of types of bananas at the grocery store.
I like how intentional breeding is literally just a less effective version of direct genetic modification - and one that we have less control over the negative results of.
Debatable on control of negative results… but yes it is just a slower version of genetic editing
@@larry5289 Ofc its slower, its gambling on the genetic level.
It can be first try or the 19574 try to get the genetics you want since its a gamble on what sticks on the new plant and what gets lost.
People just assume GM crops are instantly bad when its just a quicker and more effective way than crossbreeding plants
@@plummet3860 They buy the lies of the organic food movement.
@@plummet3860 Indeed. Its like all advancements in science. Instead of doing it the slow and random way, we found a better, faster and more effective way.
Since technically ALL the current crops have been gene modified to massive extent compared to the original crops. Sure it wasnt in a lab, it was with trial and error over decades with crossbreeding.
love how they start the video by stating that there already is a solution, but people are just scared of GMOs.
There's a reason why people scared of GMO. Why human still get sick often even they follow good diet compare to people who live in the old day who might only eat bread.
Dental problem is raising, gum disease that can kill human because of GMO food that make gum bone loss. 🤔
People also easily broke their leg and their limb because of GMO, and this examples are just a scratch.
Just like Nuclear, it's safe and clean, but people have irrational fear due to misinformation and fearmongering. It's no different from anti vaccine people.
@@kentbell6757 Which part of research paper are you reading? This is the first time I heard of this
Remember, carrot used to be purple, corn used to have kernels as big as grain of rice and watermelon used to be not full of water.
Why nobody would understand that crossbreeding is also GMO?
@@kentbell6757 none of what you said is true. Please share some factual links and do some research. The reasons why people are unhealthy are not because of GMO, rather poor diet, lack of exercise and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
GMOs are tasteless man. If that is the only choice you'd rather forget about bananas in general, because your money will be wasted on a fruit that tastes like a cabbage.
My reaction? Finally!
We still have gros mitchel here in Jamaica today.
Cavendish banana was the most flavourless type I have ever tasted in life. Those roadside locals with black spots are sweeter, tastier and healthier.
Yeah,in Philippines, cavendish is the main variety planted for commercial purpose,bu l don't like it much, it's not so sweet, I prefer my own grown.
the Lacatan variety of Philippines is more aromatic and sweeter
Cavendish are the reason why I hate bananas
I very much like the local bananas better lmao
you must never tried Indonesian banana. it's much better than cavendish
I’m open to trying other bananas. I don’t know about other westerners lol.
The problem is bananas spoil very fast. By the time these other varieties arrive in the US, they would likely be rotten. Nonetheless, you can research other varieties of bananas that are resistant to cold climates and plant those in your garden.
We just need to get rid of the bad stigma of GMO
@@OurLordandSaviorSigmar maybe we could get seeds and create the right conditions to grow them here. It might be hard but it’s worth is for banans
@@sloppyoyster5779 ; The stigma is there for a reason, many GMOs are used to make plants immune to even more pesticides. In the end the consumer always suffers.
@@FirstDagger But there are GMOs that reduce the need for pesticides. Pesticides are used on pretty much all crops, including organic ones. Just because something is naturally occurring doesn't mean it's any safer. Arsenic is naturally occurring but I don't see anyone rushing to have some with their dinner just cause it's from nature. GMOs are possibly the one shot we have at actually solving world hunger and it's cause of people like you that we aren't closer to that goal.
0:46 that was pretty cool, I bet it felt cool too
I think this is the most blessed RUclips channel out there 🪱 God bless 🐁 Rescue the animals 🐓
In southeast asia they had a summit meeting just to agree on the names of their hundreds of species of banana.
12:25 "Red bananas, pink bananas" - shows banana blossom (which is always red or pink), not the banana fruit
I can't even imagine bananas not existing. Add that to the list of things my kids will never know.
i would love to be able to buy the old bannana strains in shops in the eu like the real bannana that is like 1/3 seeds 😂 i love that stuff
"Tastes pretty good."
Well you haven't tried Lakatan and Latundan bananas.
I prefer the senorita myself
@@LilieLira Señorita is small but densely tasty!
Here before the Male Reproductive Organ Gets Brought up
Hahahaha true
@Bernard Taupe Those Small types of bananas? Better?
Okay so when do we detect the Gargantua?
plants vs zombies?
Interstellar
interstellar???
@Peace! Definitely not😂😂
There won’t be one and we all die
Wow. PNG up!
What's the ticking clock music at the beginning at the video? I would like to know
This was fascinating. And also makes me more appreciative of my fruit. Thanks for the video!
I would rather eat a different variety of bananas anyway, never really liked Cavendish.
There probabaly the only Benananas you have ever eaten so maby you don't like them full stop.
Then come to the Philippines, we have several variants of bananas that come in different sizes and taste
@@legobrickabrac No, I've had different varieties like apple bananas, red bananas, etc. I liked those much better.
@@thesamuraix881 Philippines is gay
Still it doesn’t deserve to go extinct
First ten seconds, is all I need
Delighted..i hope all bananas all go exticnt as soon as possible.
Using gm bananas as a fence to protect the area of the non-gm banana.
You still have the problem of the fungus being on the ground and that people wont trust that farm banana's because: "they grow genetically modified bananas there"
@Mohamed Mahamud GMOs have a bad reputation simply because the idea scares people. Humans have been genetically modifying plants for millennia, but because we’re doing the exact same thing in a different way now, it scares people. The only threat GMOs pose is narrowing the genetic diversity of our foods.
@Mohamed Mahamud they can have ecological and economical repecutions (think montsanto), but yeah, they are just like nuclear energy, a solution with bad reputation.
@@captainbongwater7790 ikr, think about it, humans are GMO, if we weren’t we would still be bacteria smh.
@@joseangelmonterroza9364 They are water efficient, land efficient and have more nutrients.Please I’m really curious, tell me how they have economic and ecological impacts? No shade, just curious.🧐
I'm a banana farmer from South India farming different kinds of indigenous varieties, the world should support us and reap the benefits.❤.
Which one you are breeding Kerala brown banana,amruthapani,chakarakeli ?
I am growing a Gran Nain, Truly Tiny and a Dwarf Cavendish bananas. I don't want to see these plants sick. I love their big giant leaves and company.
This have been on my mind. I have noticed the bananas that are being sold now in America have weird green spots on them. As if there ripening in a pixelated way. This video explains what I've been thinking.
What about stopping the practice of creating massive monocultures? I mean, I'd love to have multiple types of banana throughout the year rather than having the same banana.
@Pristine Artifact how so? They'll need the same number of workers tp tend to the crop, regardless of the type of the banana.
Imagine having different types of bananas for holidays? Like you can have a specific flavor and species of banana for a holiday like Christmas or Easter or Ramadan (after sunset of course)
@@therealspeedwagon1451 my mom used to make fruit soup only at christmas time, now I eat figs and dates any time, but definitely in Ramadhan I eat a lot of dates. I think plums were also used in the soup and raisins and apricots. Fruit soup is eaten with hot rice and the soup is cooled.
@@Diamondraw4Real wait if your Muslim why did you celebrate Christmas or was that before you converted?
Plantains: “I’m right here you know”
Westeners need to expand their Horizons, theres so MANY variety of Bananas that much more tastier than Cavendish
I'm completely open to it, but it's the companies that aren't.
Look dude, if I want to eat a banana, I’ll eat a banana. Not a strawberry flavored banana, not a mango flavored banana. A banana flavored banana. To me, all tomatoes taste the same, but how the dude was describing the different bananas. They all taste differently.
I don't see that happening. Every time I grow new varieties of plants in my garden or talk about foraging, people are quickly turned off to it. You should see peoples reactions to carrots that aren't orange.
@@undeadaxolotl8584 yeah thats too sad, especially now that the west are more open to try other cultures food.. Maybe someday..
I thought it was wrong for westerners to expand their horizons?
There are plenty of perfectly acceptable alternatives to the Cavendish. I'm really not worried.
There's even a strain that tastes basically the same and has the same shipping benefits. It just has an unappealing brown stripe going down it.
Gros michel grows in my yard here in Jamaica i didn't know it was wiped out in some other countries.
"Short term fix" is the motto of all businesses unfortunately
Yep every single one ever
People want bananas, so they sell them bananas. If enough people want something to be done differently, the market will meet the demand. Governments sticking their noses into the private sector and determining the winners and losers just results in a distorted market and a missallocation of capital. Free market > Government regulation
sad
Fun fact: Cavendish is far from the tastiest type of banana available.
In most places it's the only banana available
I’d love to try different banana varieties, especially the gros michel and Java
I want to try different types of bananas, including the GMO Cavendish.
Glad to be part of this interesting documentary, thanks you for visiting our laboratory
I am from India, and we have great biodiversity of bananas. Banana is an integral part of our culture for ages. So, this particularly monoculture of one single variety doesn't apply strictly. But, no doubt TR4 is a serious concern around the globe as well as a banana industry here in India. I really liked the last few words, like we have to change the marketing strategies. We have push other varieties of bananas. Heavily depending upon Cavendish group can cause serious damage.
Tr4 is probably man made to corner the market like covid
the way they measured those bananas hit close to home
Great video! I was very inspired after watching this then I started wondering How We Figured Out The Origin of Bananas (and Plantains). I just published a video documentary about that.
I live in India, we have some banana trees , I don't know who planted then ( even my grandpa doesn't) , means they were their even before my grandpa, but those bananas are half the size of normal ones and somewhat sour-sweet flavoured, I thought of replacing them with a good high-yealding banana plant from market , but I feel that we should maintain the diversity by conservation of native varieties
"Bananas are also facing a pandemic" :(
Pray for our banana boys y'all, they're having a tough time
In Australia our banana growing areas are ushally hilly so rotating tractors instead of cable delivery is the norm plus quiet often if the paddock has smaller trees we cut alone and not in groups of 2.
I call this the revanche of the rainforest
Drives me insane that people are fine with selective breeding, but not GMOs, as if breeding isn't genetic modification. They both change the genetics of the thing at a fundamental level, its just that breeding is WAY harder to control.
yeah, GMOs are much saer than breeding
Only a complete fool would think a fish could flop out of the water and mate with a corn cob. Lol Adding animal DNA to a plant is not the same as crossbreeding or open pollination. That is the prob "westerners have with some GMO. Adding foreign DNA to a plant that would never happen naturally.
@@brich14sho the problem with that is you're seeing it as the animals as opposed to the genetic pattern that it is. All of it is modifying the pattern of genetic sequencing. In your specific hypothetical the "corn" or the "fish" just happen to have a useful pattern to move. All life on earth uses the same 4 building blocks for their DNA. It's less about species, more like computer programming.
@@brich14sho So what? People are just overly paranoid about GMOs. Just because you add DNA from different things to one another doesn't mean it automatically produces something bad.
Aye. Selective breeding is like firing a shotgun at a target a couple miles away. Eventually you'll hit it...
But in the meantime, who knows what else you'll hit?
Laboratory gene transfer is like walking up to the target and stabbing it with a knife.
Those rubber boots are cleaner than my hair on holidays.
I'm on day 4.
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@@1joshjosh1 Welp, hahaha~
With the state ofgenetic and agricultural science now it's pretty easy to store the DNA of the affected bananas and some crop samples and work on a more resilient Cavendish banana.
They grow wild in my garden back in Jamaica. Maybe there won't be enough for export from diseased farms but extinction nahhh
People (throughout history): Casually produce GMO food by picking and farming whatever tastes, looks nice and gives the most food
People (now): No GMO
Me: Do people not realize that some food (like corn, bananas and watermelons) are already genetically modified from what they once looked like a few thousands of years ago?
Me: JK, I am just joking around
Neo-Human Bob 100,000 years ago: Hey Dave, pass me the stone with the diamond in, i wanna look at all this GENETIC MODIFICATION we're doing.
Neo-Human Dave: Wait Bob. We can MODIFY the GENES of things! Well, lets start by preserving our biggest source of meat, the MAMMOTH.
Neo-Human Bob: No Dave. We can only modify things that people will think came before we even went bipedal, and only then do we edit it to ONLY remove seeds. Because after hunting and dodging wild animals, who wants *shivers* watermelon seeds in their teeth, our very sharp incisor teeth meant for eating meat.
Neo-Human Bill: Imagine when we hit our peak. And go and smash those European guys, take their land, and their VERY VERY OBVIOUS watermelon and bannanas. And then clone them. For a HUNDRED THOUSAND of years. I see no flaw.
Emily Pan,
People are no longer stupid enough to buy these arguments, Emily. There is a big difference between traditional plant breeding--selecting the best seeds from the best crosses of various varieties--vs splicing new genetic material from, say, a fish into a tomato.
Traditional plant breeding uses processes that occur every day in nature (for example, cross-pollination). However GMO does NOT occur in nature. It is an artificial human-initiated process being pushed by the same huge agribusiness (MONSANTO/BAYER) that gave us the cancer-causing Round-Up currently available on store shelves, the cancer-causing Agent Orange and cancer-causing & wildlife/environment-destroying DDT. Monsanto/Bayer cares nothing about people, the natural environment, or the legacy we pass on to our children. All Monsanto/Bayer cares about is PROFITS$$$$$.
Consumers are educated. We've learned not to trust corporations like Monsanto because their track record of greed, destruction, annihilation & sociopathy is available for everyone to see.
@@tothelighthouse9843 Ya no shit Sherlock. Also you do realize that here are thouse who hear and/or bearly read/research the bare minimum and run with it, right.
@@EmelyPhan You mean like idiots who climb onto youtube & try comparing GMO with natural selection & natural cross-pollination? And mock anti-GMO people as if we're too stupid to know the difference? Yeah, I'm aware those idiots are online--you can tell them by their uninformed opinions & spelling mistakes.
Fortunately few people buy their pro-GMO bs anymore. But just in case, it's why I usually make a point of correcting their GMO lies & manipulations, so readers see the truth. Cheers.
@@tothelighthouse9843 If genes are successfully manipulated then there should be no cancer that you speak of, that is not how the science you speak of works. Cancer would first show up in a form inside the banana and then we would have to get it through our digestive tract which is punishing to almost all cells. So are you truly correcting someone if you don't try to understand the science behind the process? This just seems like anti-vax and pro-life talk to me.
Great to see such precautions are happening. Thank you for sharing.
Wow I had no idea how big banana trees are!
Our las resort would be the seed vault tbh
Somehow i feel like the solution is just to introduce other types of bananas or something
The solution is for the people to suck it up and eat gmo bananas. Simplest solution ever
This is what happens when we go against biodiversity!
...this problem is only getting worse because we *aren’t* genetically modifying them. You donut.
@@LevSeven_ reread their comment
@@kylej9150 Two things. 1: Bananas reproduce this way if they don’t have seeds. 2: They were being an anti gmo person, which I don’t really get
@@LevSeven_ They were being pro-biodiversity, which is not anti-gmo. Gmo's were created to increase biodiversity by enabling plants to be adapted to resist disease and other external factors or for any other number of reasons. And I think it's understandable that people are afraid of GMO's because, by definition, they are organisms genetically modified by humans. Not exactly the most trustworthy species as shown by history.
@@LevSeven_ m'kay with the name calling... since this is about them growing from a CLONE of a fruit we liked some time ago, they don't need to genetically modify they need to DIVERSIFY!
love them
Cavendish are yucky compared to the Gros Michel I grew up on back in the '50s but it was wiped out by fungus as well.
almost like we didn’t learn anything from that time
I don't believe you're over 70 years old. You use the word yucky here. In another comment you say peeps are the crack of food. You have the language cadence of a millennial
@@waterwise77 you sound fun
@@waterwise77 older people can also say yucky lol
Us in Japan: you guys dont have Gros Michel anymore? Taste like candy
@Erika Smith there are tons of different Bananas in the world. The RUclips videos say that Gros Miche is extinctl, the one they used for making Candy Banana Flavor, like Runts, still exists. I think it's extinct in the Americas but still exists in Asia.
Yeah like, in Brazil there are tons of banana varieties... And cavendish is the worst of them all
Technically the ones in Japan aren't pure Gros Michel, they are cross breeds. But that's not to say they taste worse, they could even taste better. Japan seems to have an obsession with cross/ selective breeding fruit for taste.
I have seen c/b Gros Michels in china before
@@ratdoto2148 Fuji apples 😂
I grew up in a country where different varieties of bananas grow so when i first tasted the cavendish variety i thought it looked very beautiful and perfect but i also thought the taste was very poor.
In phillipines we have so many bananas that if you just look in an vacant lot you can see several banana trees
Saw this variety in Singapore and Malaysia supermarkets.
But here in the Philippines, we have a lot of varieties and all of them taste good.
We fry them(coat with brown sugar)we steam them, we make banana chips out of them
They are very versatile and some varieties can be included in making dishes!
Yeah and my favorite is what we call Saging Sabah
We can even cook with the banana stem and banana heart, I love those dishes😩
Singapore and Malaysia have a lot of varieties of bananas too.