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Topic: Bananas

Bananas are India’s horticulture success story. Time to up the game in international markets

Better farm practices, and improved storage, ripening and transportation by reefer vans can reduce losses and enhance the quality of Indian bananas in the international market.

The banana is in danger. Nuclear tech can save it

A staple across the world, the fruit is under threat from one of the world's deadliest banana diseases.

Andhra is going bananas — how India’s largest producer of the fruit is breaking own record

Andhra is set to export 75,000 metric tonnes in 2020-21, continuing its run of success in producing bananas. Officials & private firms credit partnership model.

Good news from the farms — fruit, vegetable prices set to ease with big jump in production

Ministry of Agriculture’s estimates, however, show that production of apple, spices & tomato is estimated to decline in 2020-21 as compared to previous year. 

Masks made from Banana-tree species could be the answer to cutting Covid plastic waste

Abaca, a fiber derived from a banana tree relative, is as durable as polyester but can decompose within two months. The Philippines is the world’s largest producer of it.

Climate change threatens cultivation of Indian banana, global warming likely to hit output

A new study has found that climate change will slash banana yields, in a prospect daunting for India, the biggest consumer and producer of the fruit.

Scientists are in a race to save the humble banana from extinction

This crisis is a warning that we are growing our food in an unsustainable way, and we need to look at more radical changes for a permanent solution.

Bananas and biwis: The two things Virat Kohli wants for cricket World Cup 2019

If we cannot stand up for our right to bananas from the sahibs why did we win Independence at all?

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Govt inks deal with HAL for 97 new Tejas Mk1A; previous order’s deliveries likely to begin next yr

There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.