By Roger M. Balanza, DURIANBURGDAVAO

The Davao Region economy, and other banana-growing regions in Southern and Central Mindanao, could end up as rotten as rotten bananas if banana companies pack their bananas and bring them to other countries.

It’s been bad news after bad news lately, but the banana industry, and we’re talking about the lowly workers and its beneficiaries here, have taken a more proactive campaign to defend their human rights to a quality life that majorly depends on their economic fate.

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By Stephen Aguilar-Millan, eufo.blogspot.com

One of the recurring issues within the discussion about achieving a low carbon sustainable economy is the question of ‘Food Miles’.

The Department of Health in Region XI has disowned role in a recent study which recommended a stop to use of aerial spraying in Davao del Sur for its alleged effects on health of people in communities near banana plantations.

The Court of Appeals recognized the extreme urgency for the matter and the resulting grave and irreparable injury that will continue to befall the banana growers and exporters unless the ban on aerial spraying is lifted pending the resolution of the appeal.

The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, the banana has an interesting and sometimes sordid history.