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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

The influencer war that took rural creator Pujarini Pradhan global

As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.