On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The final piece of the banana pricing equation is genetics. Unlike > apple and orange growers, banana importers sell only a single variety > of their fruit, the Cavendish. There are more than 1,000 varieties of > bananas — most of them in Africa and Asia — but except for an > occasional exotic, the Cavendish is the only banana we see in our > markets. It is the only kind that is shipped and eaten everywhere from > Beijing to Berlin, Moscow to Minneapolis.
How true is this in India? I see several different varieties [1] available here. From that perspective, this article seems unnecessarily alarmist. -- b [1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
