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    Introduction In the beginning‚ bananas could not make its way to the United States or anywhere internationally without getting spoiled. Bananas were mainly sold within Latin America‚ until refrigeration came along to help maintain the produce’s freshness‚ allowing it to be sold in the international market. The United States is one of the trading partners to the fruit companies selling bananas. These fruit companies in the early 1900s were called The United Fruit Company‚ Cuyamel Fruit Company‚

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    Week 11 Theme: Health What Are the Benefits of Eating Banana Peels? Bananas have been a highly cultivated fruit for thousands of years. Many species of primate consume the entire banana‚ peel and all‚ which may have led indigenous peoples to follow suit. Although not common practice in the West‚ peoples of Asian countries eat banana peels‚ but they are usually cooked in some capacity. They are not nearly as sweet as the flesh‚ but they are rich in some nutrients‚ especially potassium‚ and

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    such as medical application‚ daily groceries carrying. Within the banana supply chain‚ plastic bags are utilized since the very in many stages for example at the packaging station‚ the bananas will be packed into cardboard boxes with an inlay of a plastic bag or at the wholesalers‚ three to five bananas will be wrapped in one plastic bag and the customer at the retailers will buy all those amounts. It is all known that after bananas are consumed‚ plastic bags will become wasted. There are already

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    Bananas are the fruit of a plant of the genus Musa‚ which are cultivated primarily for food‚ and secondarily for the production of fibers. It is alleged that there are almost 1000 varieties of bananas in the world‚ subdivided in 50 groups (Bora‚ 2007). The most generally known banana is the seedless Cavendish variety‚ which is the one produced for export markets and pronounced for consuming. The banana is the fruit of an herbaceous plant related to the orchid family and is most commonly found in

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    The Philippine banana industry is one of the top agricultural export earners. The increase in demand worldwide has resulted to greater expansion of area planted to banana. As a tropical country‚ Philippines grows an abundant varirety of fruit crops primarily for local consumption and export market. Banana is considered as the most important fruit crop in the country in terms of volume production and export earnings. Philippines ranks second to Ecuador as the top banana-exporting country in the world

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    The Banana Case

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    ENRICO TRAVERSA‚ A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION’ S LEGAL DEPARTMENT‚ WITH AN ADDRESS FOR SERVICE IN LUXEMBOURG AT THE OFFICE OF G . KREMLIS‚ ALSO A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION’ S LEGAL DEPARTMENT‚ JEAN MONNET BUILDING‚ KIRCHBERG‚ APPLICANT‚ V ITALIAN REPUBLIC‚ REPRESENTED BY LUIGI FERRARI BRAVO‚ HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR CONTENTIOUS DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS‚ ACTING AS AGENT‚ ASSISTED BY SERGIO LAPORTA‚ AVVOCATO DELLO STATO‚ WITH AN ADDRESS FOR SERVICE IN LUXEMBOURG AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY‚ DEFENDANT‚ APPLICATION

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    agricultural products‚ the banana is the fourth most important food product within the least developed countries‚ being the staple food for some 400 million people (1). Of all the fruits‚ it holds first place by production volume and is amongst the five most consumed fruits on the planet (2). Some 1‚000 varieties of banana trees have been identified in more than 150 countries‚ producing around 105 to 120 million tonnes (Mt) of fruit a year. There are two main families: the sweet banana or “fruit”‚ essentially

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    Blood Bananas: Chiquita In Columbia Overview: This complex case touches on fundamental questions of ethics and morality while displaying the inherent risks and rewards associated with operating a business abroad in geographies with histories of violence and civil unrest. The case exposes the challenges faced by Chiquita when trying to maintain production and profitability while also protecting its employees in a hostile situation. In this case‚ the lines of the ethics and morality are not as straightforward

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    Origin of Bananas

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    Bananas are said to be currently the world’s third most popular fruit and evidence shows could be the oldest cultivated crop (Langdon 18). The tropical fruit is believed to have originated and first domesticated in Southeast Asia estimated around 5000 BC (Langdon 18). Due to how difficult reproducing the seedless banana plant is‚ the distribution did not stray far from Southeast Asia for thousands of years in its existence. Apparently the first Europeans to learn about it were the Greeks under

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    Blood Banana Strategic Management 581 Blood Banana Running a business is about more than just making money. It requires adequate consideration to a number of issues‚ of which ethics is most certainly one. As a business grows and becomes more significant‚ it impacts the lives of people in so many ways. But without a clear understanding of business ethics‚ a company can lose its business by ruining its reputation and alienating employees‚ suppliers

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