A banana plantation is a commercial agricultural facility found in tropical climates where bananas are grown. Banana plants may grow with varying degrees...

banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation...

important false banana (Ensete ventricosum) of Africa are sometimes included. Both genera are in the banana family, Musaceae. Banana plantations are subject...

Australia. The grounds of the park are set amongst a banana plantation, featuring a large walk-through banana. Built in 1964, it was one of Australia's first...

grown on banana plantations primarily in the Americas. As is the case with all monocultures, the intensive agroindustrial methods for banana production...

as they might be related to the plantation workers. On the day of the massacre, December 5, 1928, about 1500 banana workers along with their families...

containing banana plantations, and controlled the importation of bananas via various fruit companies, such as Dole and Chiquita. The first commercial banana farm...

scores of plantation workers and their families. This episode is known in the history of Colombia as the Masacre de las Bananeras (Banana Massacre)....

Partially based on Selvaraj's life, in the film, Sivanaindhan works at a banana plantation while going to school; however, he hates working there. The film was...

García Márquez states that he took the name Macondo from a sign at a banana plantation near Aracataca. He also mentions the fact that Macondo is the local...

fungus, with 40% (85,000 hectares) of the country's banana plantations affected by it. Production of banana involves direct adoption of natural resources and...

biggest banana plantation, which is owned by the Tagum Agricultural Development Company (TADECO), which covers around 6,900 hectares of banana fields and...

Portuguese for forest fire: locals attempted to clear land for a banana plantation on the island by burning. A lighthouse was constructed in 1909 to...

Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group (triploid...

and many foreign settlers. An American fruit company establishes a banana plantation outside the town, and builds its own segregated village across the...

subsistence banana farmers and large plantations alike. While the lesion nematode is known to exact largely superficial lesions in the roots systems of banana trees...

business was his 6000-hectare banana plantation in Panabo, Davao del Norte, Philippines, earning him the title as the "banana king" during the dictatorship...

(UFC) who was the major exporter of bananas to the US, needed the military’s help in protecting its large plantations and railroads from potential threats...

Caribbean in the 1870s, and would lead to the development of large-scale banana plantations, usually owned and operated by highly integrated large corporations...

wide range of banana cultivars; however, it is best known for the damage it caused to a single cultivar in the early export plantations. Before 1960,...

bananas were grown on massive plantations in Honduras, Costa Rica, and elsewhere in Central America. The variety was once the dominant export banana to...

(2009). Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. ISBN 978-0-387-71199-7. "Big business: Banana". livingrainforest...

at a permanently-built up camp and filming studios on a disused banana plantation facility called Dungay Creek in Dungay near Murwillumbah. However...

Bananas!* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua...

Central American Banana Plantation (1989) which was based on two years of living in the workers' barracks of a Chiquita Brands banana plantation spanning the...

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

control over the banana industry in the Caribbean and Central America, in the early 20th century. The development of United Fruit plantations followed the...

Jalisco, Mexico, young men dream of escaping the drudgery of the banana plantations. Two of them, a pair of half-brothers, play in local football matches...

Africa, plantains and bananas provide more than 25 percent of the caloric requirements for over 70 million people. Plantain plantations are vulnerable to...

airport serving the village and Del Monte banana plantation at El Carmen in Limón Province, Costa Rica. The plantation is 12 kilometres (7 mi) north of Siquirres...