GIVING IDEAS

Growing and exporting bananas is one of the most important industries

in Davao. Bananas require both tropical climate and hard work. The
plants grow in the lowlands where the temperature is always hot and
there is abundant rainfall. The farmers must care for the plants many
months before the fruit is mature. Then, they select the largest bunches
to sell. The brunches are cut off from the stalk near the ground. Many
farm hands load the heavy brunches of bananas on the trucks. If the
bananas must be carried any distance to the truck, men carry them on
their backs or tie them on the backs of the horses. Exporting or the
marketing process requires hauling the crop to the seaport and
loading it on ships. The trucks carry the bananas to the decks. At the
docks the bananas may be carried by hand and put in large nets that will
be lifted by crane and lowered into the holds of the ship These vessels
carry great quantities of green bananas to many parts of the world.
Some weeks later, the fruit, now ripened and yellow is ready to be sold
in fruit markets and supermarket in your hometown. Many people never
think about the thousands of miles and delicious banana on their
breakfast table had to travel to get there.
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