Bananas are the world’s favorite fruit and many nations depend on banana trees to supply its citizens with this delicious food product to save them from famines. Bananas are available on markets year round and are rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber, containing only small hollow seed that are infertile. Ornamental bananas, ‘Musa ensete’ and [...]

  The word ‘banana’ is virtually the same in German, French and Italian (In the West, only the Germans eat more bananas than we do) and comes from the Arabic word for “finger”.
The fruit of the banana plant grows in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 3-20 [...]