India is the number one producer of bananas in the world by a significant margin. India produces nearly 20 million more tons of bananas per year than the number two country on this list.
Ecuador:- it is the world's largest banana producer and exporter. It has devoted an average 180.337 hectare of land for the production of bananas exporting over 4 million tonnes annually.
India is the top country by bananas production in the world. As of 2021, bananas production in India was 33.1 million tonnes that accounts for 26.40% of the world's bananas production. The top 5 countries (others are China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Ecuador) account for 53.79% of it.
India is the largest banana producer in the world with 30,460,000 tonnes production per year. China comes second with 11,998,329 tonnes yearly production. With 7,280,659 tonnes of production per year, Indonesia is the third largest producer of banana.
Apple bananas are exceptionally sweet, hence their other name, Candy Apple Banana. They are grown in the rainy tropical forests in Hawaii.
India is both the largest producer and consumer of bananas worldwide.
India Banana: India is the largest producer of bananas.
Bananas are Australia's largest horticultural industry and highest selling supermarket product. Most production is located in north Queensland regions: Kennedy. Tully.
The first bananas
Bananas are believed to have originated up to 10,000 years ago and some scientists believe they may have been the world's first fruit. The first bananas are thought to have grown in the region that includes the Malaya Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea.
THE BIG BANANA FUN PARK
In 1964 John Landi wanted something to make passing traffic stop at his road side banana stall. He had heard of a “Big Pineapple” in Hawaii and thought that something big would definitely stop traffic.
The oldest remains, estimated to be 7000 years old, have been found in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The largest collection of bananas in the world is located in Belgium, at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Botanically called musa velutina, the pink banana belongs to the musaceae family which includes plantains and cultivated bananas. And it is quite possibly the prettiest banana in the world.
Queensland accounts for 94 per cent of Australia's banana production, with almost all of that in North Queensland. Banana farming is centered around the Cassowary Coast region (Tully, Innisfail and Kennedy), the Atherton Tablelands, and at Lakeland, north of Cairns.
The owner of New Somali Kitchen, Abdo Sean, says you're welcome to have the banana whenever you want, but you're meant to eat the fruit together with your meal. "I come from the coast so the main meal I grew up eating was banana and rice," he tells SBS Food. You'll always find bananas in Somali cuisine.
In 2019, performance artist David Datuna gobbled up the world-famous banana after it sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.
Leanne Ratcliffe (Freelee the Bananagirl) is an Australian YouTube personality, vegan activist, speaker, and author. She is the creator of the YouTube channel Freelee The BananaGirl, where she talks about her diet, exercise and lifestyle.
From the 1970s, Queensland gradually displaced Coffs Harbour as Australia's 'banana capital' (Queensland now accounts for about 75 per cent of national production). Accordingly, over the last decade, the area under bananas in Coffs Harbour has been declining at about 5 per cent a year.
Mackays are indisputably the largest producer of bananas in Australia. We pride ourselves on delivering a consistently high quality product and service year round, to both local retailers and customers as well as major supermarkets throughout Australia.
Banana is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia.
How many types of bananas are there in Australia? There are at least 7 types of bananas grown in Australia. The two main types of bananas grown in Australia are Cavendish and Lady Finger, accounting for 95% and 4% of Australia's banana production, respectively.
Size: 2 gal. Once only allowed to be grown and eaten by Hawaiian nobility Ae Ae is by far one of the rarest bananas in the world.
Because bananas are highly labor-intensive, labour cost significantly impacts Australia's global competiveness.