The climate of Florida supports the growing of Oranges and Bananas but inside all the grocery stores the Oranges and Bananas come from clear across the country, how does this logistically make sense?
The climate of Florida supports the growing of Oranges and Bananas but inside all the grocery stores the Oranges and Bananas come from clear across the country, how does this logistically make sense?
Orange harvests have been getting smaller and smaller in Florida due to citrus greening disease, which has more than likely been ignored on purpose in order to allow increased real estate development. I say this because I remember reading about how Florida is getting hit really hard but other citrus growing regions are not. I might be wrong about this.
I’ve never seen California bananas, but also never any Florida bananas, generally they’re from central and south america. I assume they are imported from there because of exploitative labor conditions.
AFAIK the only US state in which bananas can grow is Hawaii and they don’t grow that many so they are mostly eaten locally.
Bananas are grown in Southern California commercially. Not at huge scale but del monte still grows and sells them as far as I know.