A stroll around the Imenti area in Meru reveals swathes of lush green farms where banana plantations are flourishing alongside the region’s traditional crop, miraa (khat). As farmers increasingly ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild subspecies of the fruit. In a valuable step forward for banana breeding ...

SYDNEY - An outbreak of a feared disease affecting banana plants has been confirmed on an Australian farm, raising worries over the outlook for the country's $420 million industry. The so-called ...

Nicaraguan farm workers poisoned by the pesticide Nemagon are ready to hear the ruling in their decades-long case against US multinationals. Farmers worldwide still rely on noxious chemicals, often ...

It’s easy to take bananas for granted. Walk into any U.S. supermarket, no matter how poorly stocked, and there they are. Bananas top the list of fresh fruit sold in this country—the average American ...

KISARAZU, Chiba >> A banana farm that had its first harvest this spring produces fruit with an edible skin. Kisarazu Farm in Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture, was established when solar company Uni Root ...

Queensland's Bartle Frere Bananas is One of Four Australian Farmers Working with Hort Innovation and Hitachi Vantara to Apply Advanced Data Analytics to Improve Horticulture's Environmental ...