{"id":12135,"date":"2025-12-25T20:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/all-bananas-are-the-same\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:04:50","slug":"all-bananas-are-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/all-bananas-are-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"All bananas are the same"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not just similar. Cavendish bananas (the usual kind here in the US) are all clones, each from a tree grafted from a tree grafted, all the way back, from the first tree of the species in the UK.<\/p>\n

There are problems with this.<\/p>\n

Sure, the banana is the most reliable fruit. The banana marketing folks don\u2019t have to worry about uniformity.<\/p>\n

But the monoculture is fragile. When the virus that kills this species spreads, they\u2019ll all disappear.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s little room for innovation, for positioning or to be anything more than a commodity provider. It\u2019s hard to tell a story about a better banana when bananas are all so obviously the same.<\/p>\n

My best advice is to avoid being a banana farmer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tDecember 25, 2025<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n