Cavendish bananas are the main commercial banana cultivars sold in the world market.
What is the commercial variety of banana?
1) GRAND NAINE: This is a very popular international variety. It is a tall plant with a long cylindrical bunch that produces a lot of fruit. It produces a bunch weighing 25 kg on average and up to 32-35 kg with 8-10 hands and 200-220 fruits/bunch.
Where do commercial bananas come from?
Where Are Bananas Grown? Bananas and other tropical fruit like pineapples are grown in the tropical regions of Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Most tropical fruit available in British supermarkets is exported from Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa.
Are commercial bananas are seedless?
Most bananas sold in stores are of the Cavendish variety, which are commercial bananas that typically produce no seeds. That's because they've are modified to have three sets of genes, called a "triploid,"1 instead of two to create a seedless variety.
How are commercial bananas grown?
Farmers propagate banana plants through vegetative reproduction rather than seeds. These plants grow from thick, underground stems called rhizomes. The rhizome spreads and grows new buds and shoots near the base of the mature plant. The farmer removes these pups and plants them elsewhere on the farm.
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