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the world's most important fruit

Posted: January 30 2016

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Sitting in picture-perfect Peak District grounds, Chatsworth House seems an unlikely birthplace for today's global banana industry. But practically every banana consumed in the western world is directly descended from a plant grown in the Derbyshire estate's hothouse 180 years ago.
This is the story of how the Cavendish became the world's most important fruit - and why it and bananas as we know them could soon cease to exist....