I found this article about bananas in the Philippines at yahoo.com when I was searching for something to read. I thought this would be an interesting article plus we can learn a little more about our home land.
Philippine is one of the world’s largest banana exporters. For Japan, Philippine banana is the major trade partner. Significant tracts of land are devoted to banana production in the regions of Southern Mindanao, Southern Tagalog, the CARAGA, and Western Visayas. Large contiguous areas are devoted for commercial production in four provinces in Mindanao, namely Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, South Cotabato, and Misamis Oriental. Japan has consistently been the largest importer of Philippine bananas, accounting for more than 60% of the country’s total fresh banana export and about 15% of banana chips export.

Banana is considered as the most important fruit crop in the country in terms of volume of production and export earnings. Banana production contributes significantly not only to the national income in terms of export earnings but also to employment. But banana production, aside from the benefits, has said to have negative effects not only to the health of its workers who apply the pesticides during banana production, but also to the environment.

Anyways, I guess you all wonder why I am talking about BANANAS here, well its because I really miss these kinds of bananas. when I was in the Philippines my mom use to tease me I'm a monkey because I really loved to eat bananas and the kind I really like the most is the latondan like in the picture above, When I got here in the US I didn't realize that they don't have this kind of banana, till then I really don't eat too many bananas anymore because I don't like them very much, unlike the one I use to have in the Philippines is really sweet and taste really good. How about you guys, haven't you been missing this kind of banana?