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Agriculture
Where Does Our Food Come From?
FRUIT
Bananas
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| Bananas are fruit that grow in a big bunch (as many as 150 bananas) on a banana plant. The fruit hangs downward from the plant. Only one bunch at a time is produced from each plant. | Bananas grow in humid, tropical climates. |
| Bananas grow on stalks or "false trunks." While the banana plant looks like a tree, it is really a very large herb. An herb is a plant does not produce any woody parts above ground. |
The chief producers of
bananas in Middle America and the
West Indies are Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, the
Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, and Martinique; in South America,
Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador; in Africa, Spain's Canary Islands,
Ethiopia, Cameroon, Guinea, and Nigeria; and in Asia, Taiwan.
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