Banana production in Panama has traditionally played an important role in the Panamanian economy since around the beginning of the twentieth century. Bananas...

to keep it out of the Americas, in mid-2019, Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4), was discovered on banana farms in the coastal Caribbean region. With...

outbreak of Panama disease almost wiped out commercial Gros Michel banana production. The Gros Michel banana was the dominant cultivar of bananas, and Fusarium...

Banana production in Brazil accounts for approximately 10% of the entire world banana production, making Brazil a major banana-producing country in the...

Banana production in Ecuador is important to the national economy. Ecuador is one of the world's top banana producers, ranked 5th with an annual production...

Invasion of Panama (Macmillan Publishing, 1990). Striffler, Steve, and Mark Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in The Americas...

Banana production in Honduras plays an important role in the economy of Honduras. In 1992, the revenue generated from banana sales amounted to US$287 million...

Banana production in the Caribbean is widespread. Bananas are cultivated by both small farmers and large land holders. The plant is perennial and is planted...

Banana production in Belize accounted for 16 percent of total Belizean exports in 1999. Banana production was aided in the 1990s by privatization and market...

being Panama disease which is caused by a Fusarium fungus. This and black sigatoka threaten the production of Cavendish bananas, the main kind eaten in the...

Agriculture in Panama is an important sector of the Panamanian economy. Major agricultural products include bananas, cocoa beans, coffee, coconuts, timber...

countries led banana production up to the 1980s, and Asian nations took the lead in banana production during the 1990s. African production levels have remained...

for banana production. Black Sigatoka Yellow Sigatoka Septoria leaf spot disease Panama disease Nematodes Insects Nigel, S. (2006). "The banana burrowing...

hurricanes, and to Panama disease, which first appeared in the 1910s in Panama, and completely destroyed banana growth very rapidly in areas where it had...

traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899...

Grasshoppers Banana skipper butterfly Panama disease/Fusarium wilt Sigatoka Moko or bacterial wilt Black leaf streak Banana bunchy top disease Banana List of...

The Banana Framework Agreement (BFA) outlines regulations on the treatment, sharing, and production of bananas and other various banana related activities...

United States banana companies the free rein that they enjoyed throughout the rest of Central America. In addition, an outbreak of Panama disease, a fungus...

Fruit and Steamship Company.: 91-92  In the 1920s, as Panama disease was destroying crops of the Gros Michel banana, Standard Fruit began looking for other...

cubense causes Panama disease on banana. It is found everywhere bananas are grown in Africa, Asia, Central and South America. It attacks banana plants of all...

tonnes. In 1961 production was 200 million tonnes. The table shows the countries with the largest production of fruit (apricot, olive, pear, banana, mango...

formerly known as San Blas, is a comarca indígena (indigenous province) in northeast Panama. Guna Yala is home to the indigenous people known as the Gunas. Its...

of banana in Central America was expanded, and The United Fruit Company and the Chiriqui Land Company were established in Bocas del Toro (Panama) and...

Panama's relatively low cost of living. A man walks along with freshly cut banana stalk View of the Caldera River as it runs South of Boquete, Panama...

Goes Bananas is a 1980 American adventure comedy film directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Don Tait. The film is the fourth installment in the Herbie...

increasing infection is in bananas. The Gros Michel variety of bananas were wiped out by a fungus (commonly known as Panama Disease) and replaced by...

Practices Act. In 1974, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama joined in an attempt to form a banana-exporting country...

fruit production and import business based in the port of Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew W. Preston and nine others established the firm to ship bananas and...

corn, rice, bananas, and cotton. This product is produced predominantly in the rural economy, the basic economy of 236 municipalities in 12 national departments...

of present-day Panama and Costa Rica in Central America. The Ngäbe mostly live within the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca in the Western Panamanian provinces of Veraguas...