The luxury bananas of that era were imports from Taiwan, but the fruit became affordable when imports from the Philippines began to flood the market. Filipino bananas are still the mainstay today.

Philippines — Rising geopolitical tensions in the West Philippine Sea is impacting Filipino banana growers as China has cut back its purchases of the country’s prized commodity, worsening the ...

Hopefully, this is no longer happening today. In a report from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, it stated: “Banana production is a source of income and employment to 5.6 million ...