Comment on Why are all of the Bananas and Oranges in FL from California?
fbn@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Orange harvests have been getting smaller and smaller in Florida due to citrus greening disease, which has more than likely been ignored on purpose in order to allow increased real estate development. I say this because I remember reading about how Florida is getting hit really hard but other citrus growing regions are not. I might be wrong about this.
I’ve never seen California bananas, but also never any Florida bananas, generally they’re from central and south america. I assume they are imported from there because of exploitative labor conditions.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
AFAIK the only US state in which bananas can grow is Hawaii and they don’t grow that many so they are mostly eaten locally.
RBWells@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I grow bananas in my yard, and know several other people who do also grow bananas. Not commercially but I would think anyplace that can grow sugarcane can grow bananas.
And there are some banana farms in Florida.
I grow Red Cuban bananas, not Cavendish.
jimonthony@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Bananas are grown in Southern California commercially. Not at huge scale but del monte still grows and sells them as far as I know.