Prices for Philippine bananas have been flat for seven years, but a surge in production costs amid the Ukraine crisis have made current margins untenable, embassy officials said. ($1 = 133.2500 yen) ...

This “super banana” was created at Uganda's National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) for the noblest of causes: to save the lives of thousands of children who die in Uganda every ...

Seeds can be a lovely method to experiment with niche banana varieties and the edible red banana (Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'). You may also grow ornamental selections from seed — Gardens ...

Philippine banana exporters, hurting from delays in payments on shipments to Iran because of Western sanctions, are considering halting exports completely to one of their biggest markets, the head ...

Was it really just 20 percent to 19 percent tariff reduction? No. Effective tariffs on Philippine exports were just at 6.65 ...

About 170 of Mr. Sachter-Smith’s finds reside in the International Musa Germplasm Transit Center, a gene bank in Belgium that safeguards the in vitro DNA of more than 1,600 banana varieties for ...

As Food & Wine reported in September, bananas across the globe are facing extinction due to TR4. It specifically affects Cavendish bananas, the world's most popular type of banana, attacking the ...

Almost all of the global banana exports come from this variety, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the U.K. Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.