[QUOTE]The United Nations is warning of the potential "massive destruction" of the world's banana crop if a disease affecting the most popular variety spreads from Asia to Africa and the Middle East.
The disease is "posing a serious threat to production and export" of bananas, the fourth most important food crop for the world's least developed countries, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a statement on Monday.
"Countries need to act now if we are to avoid the worst-case scenario, which is massive destruction of much of the world's banana crop," Fazil Dusunceli, a plant pathologist at FAO, was quoted as saying.
Gianluca Gondolini, secretary of the World Banana Forum, said it could hurt "employment and government revenues in many tropical countries".
The TR4 strain of Panama disease is one of the world's most destructive and affects the Cavendish variety - the most popular in global exports.
The FAO said it had already caused significant losses over the last two decades in Southeast Asia and cases had recently been reported in Jordan and Mozambique.
It has not yet affected top global exporters such as Colombia or Ecuador.
The disease is soil-borne and the fungus can remain viable for decades and is not dangerous to humans.
The FAO said there was a need for more monitoring, prevention and training for farm workers, including measures to avoid movement of infected soil and planting materials into and out of farms.[/QUOTE]
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Bananas are the one fruit I sometimes consider eating, without it I'd have nothing to make me feel slightly better about myself because I considered eating a fruit, without it I'd have nothing!
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;44542863]Bananas are the one fruit I sometimes consider eating, without it I'd have nothing to make me feel slightly better about myself because I considered eating a fruit, without it I'd have nothing![/QUOTE]
[del]That pun deserves a banana[/del]
aww, changed it.
Bananas are fucking delish and I wish I ate more of it
Bananas are my favourite berry.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44542954]Bananas are my favourite berry.[/QUOTE]
You may want to snip that before you get crushed to death under the weight of "I had no fucking idea! what!?"
I like my bananas long and curved. :perv:
we should eat more local fruits anyway
The problem of heavy selective breeding or relying on a single strain of crop. The moment one catches a disease, they all do, since they're all the same.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44542954]Bananas are my favourite berry.[/QUOTE]
I had no fucking idea! what!?
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44542954]Bananas are my favourite berry.[/QUOTE]
the fuck there BERRYS .?!
Time to bite on something different.. if you know what i mean girls :v:
[QUOTE=ZyreHD;44544923]Time to bite on something different.. if you know what i mean girls :v:[/QUOTE]
haha LOL you meant dicks!!! L O L
What's the UN gonna do, send the disease an angry letter?
And several sanctions that will take one to two decades to really take effect.
[QUOTE=ZyreHD;44544923]Time to bite on something different.. if you know what i mean girls :v:[/QUOTE]
bite the dust?
This is fucking [sp]_insane__.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44544962]What's the UN gonna do, send the disease an angry letter?[/QUOTE]
fuckin disease made me break out the red ink
I always get a bunch of bananas and only eat one, and whenever i feel like it's time to eat another they're pretty much all bruised and gross.
THIS IS TERRIBLE!
Should the banana go extinct, the future generations will never understand much of our most vital current pop-culture. How will they know what type of phone ring-ring-rings? They'll live their entire life without knowledge of pajama-clad fruitberries. [I](Though you won't hear me too upset about that, because the ABC rejected my suggestion for re-naming Bananas in Pajamas to the much more efficient Bananajamas)[/I] And poor Andy Warhol might have his artistry questioned as future folks won't understand the yellow bended berry appendage protruding proudly on the Velvet Ground album cover, perhaps only to be mistaken for similar-looking objects, such as oddly yellow sticks with a bend, a rotten sausage or banana candy.
Bananas are the only fruit I ever feel like eating because they're just so practical
You don't need to peel it with a knife, you don't need to slice it, you don't need to wash your hands because they're all sticky after eating, you don't need to carry a napkin or tissue to wipe your hand afterwards, you don't need to be careful not to let any juice spill, you don't need to worry about biting too deep and getting a seed in your mouth, you don't need to wash it beforehand...
[QUOTE=mac338;44546760]THIS IS TERRIBLE!
Should the banana go extinct, the future generations will never understand much of our most vital current pop-culture. How will they know what type of phone ring-ring-rings? They'll live their entire life without knowledge of pajama-clad fruitberries. [I](Though you won't hear me too upset about that, because the ABC rejected my suggestion for re-naming Bananas in Pajamas to the much more efficient Bananajamas)[/I] And poor Andy Warhol might have his artistry questioned as future folks won't understand the yellow bended berry appendage protruding proudly on the Velvet Ground album cover, perhaps only to be mistaken for similar-looking objects, such as oddly yellow sticks with a bend, a rotten sausage or banana candy.[/QUOTE]
FYI this has happened before, I'm pretty sure; back in the 50-60's. They just changed the banana strain to one that was resistant.
[QUOTE=lifehole;44547249]FYI this has happened before, I'm pretty sure; back in the 50-60's. They just changed the banana strain to one that was resistant.[/QUOTE]
That's why the artificial flavoring we know as banana doesn't taste like an actual banana. It was based on a strain that was wiped out by disease
Welp. There goes using bananas as a unit of measure.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44543206]we should eat more local fruits anyway[/QUOTE]
The only local fruits near me are poisonous berries and I'm not giving up bananas for that.
Bananas are the only way a grown-ass man like me can feel like a monkey without making other people uncomfortable and/or throwing my own shit.
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