Drink banana

Method to extract fruit juice

Fungi disarmed

Banana music

Just use it

The fibre of the banana tree is a sustainable resource to manufacture paper

GHANA

Eating the banana (tree)

Virtually every part of the banana tree finds use in kitchens across south, east and northeastern India. Here are a few recipes from Bengal

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Banana bonus

Good quality fibre from trees

Peel power

A waste byproduct earlier, banana peels are now hailed as a new source of biogas

Caribbean in trouble

Bananas over bananas

Benign banana

Shooting the messenger

Book review: Jungle Capitalists

Book>> Jungle Capitalists by Peter Chapman Canongate Books, Edinburg

EC quota drives Germans bananas

A plan to restrict import of bananas from Latin American countries is being opposed tooth and nail by the Germans.

Banana bane

COSTA RICA

COSTA RICA

Flowering blossoms

You can interpret banana flowers in many ways—religious, medicinal and culinary

Fruitful development

A test may prevent bananas from becoming extinct

Inbuilt resistance

A natural compound found in Ykm5 banana variety makes it resistant to nematodes

Caribbeans fight to protect market share

A GATT ruling that the proposed EC import regime for bananas is unfair to Latin America, has the poorer Caribbean producers up in arms.

Peel potential

Bananas can filter heavy metals from water

Banana boom

Fruits of science

An Indian research institute is in the process of developing a banana variety with a longer shelf-life