Tag: bananas

Kapi Kapi Growers, with a commitment to sustainability through the years, is making its presence known in the U.S. market.

Ecuador’s nationwide general strike has hit produce commodities hard.

Fresh Del Monte is expanding its fresh fruit offering and now sells Fair Trade Certified organic bananas in Canada and is working to start selling Fair Trade Certified bananas in the U.S.

If your Chicagoland store is short a few bananas this week, it’s because they’re all at Jewel-Osco in Westmont.  

Three hundred and fifty banana producers from the Mexican municipalities of San Rafael and Martinez de la Torre, located in the center of Veracruz, are facing the worst marketing crisis in the last 30 years.

Dole Food Company, Inc., is devoting its popular "Healthier by Dole" alternative recipe series in April to bananas in honor of the iconic yellow fruit's position at the center of two seemingly unrelated observances during the month.

Lots of nations these days have stopped buying from and selling to Russia, including the U.S.

What does the war in Ukraine have to do with the price of bananas in Ecuador? It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.

SanLucar bananas grow exclusively in the coastal region of “Los Ríos” in Ecuador where they thrive in a tropical-warm climate that is perfect for bananas.

I thought I knew what this story would be about: the threat posed to world banana production by TR4 Fusarium wilt, the disease that imperils a great part of the world banana industry. But I was wrong.