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The Invisible War Against the Banana

A Central American banana farmer recently said he might switch to pineapples. He was probably reacting to the Iran War, Trump tariffs, and a banana fungus.A 3-Front Banana War. The first banana battle could have begun on a farm in Guatemala. With the Iran War temporarily cutting off one-third of the world’s urea supply, farmers might have insufficiently fertilized their crop. The result could have been more disease and lower yield. ….[READ]