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) ...

To that end, Yelloway is studying the DNA of 150 banana varieties, to make a kind of banana family tree, Fernando García-Bastidas, the head of the banana breeding program at KeyGene, told BI.

This banana variety makes the best banana bread. For this Dole test kitchen experiment, Marcus used four varieties, Cavendish Bananas (Control), Manzano Bananas, Red Bananas, and Extra-Ripe Plantains.