Not really about Food or Thai Food! Thai economy hardly dependent on Bananas..but

Q: Why can I no longer buy a hand of small sweet bananas like we used to?

Bananas expensive now here too!

This got anything to do with it?:

http://qz.com/164029/tropical-race-4-global-banana-industry-is-killing-the-worlds-favorite-fruit/

Hardly....grow a few banana tress apparently there fast growers.

i got sm trees if u want sm bananas, im in the sticks in issan though.

Grow like weeds on the side of the roads here.

Where do you live and shop?

In westernized tourist Thailand and shopping at the supermarket?

I can buy a nice bunch of bananas for 5 baht.

But my neighbors usually give me more than I can eat for free.

When my own trees are not producing.

I'm guessing you need to get out and into the real Thailand.... and make some friends.

i have four trees in my garden , once they have flowered, or the bananas have grown , I take down the Bananas and chop the tree down , I give the trunk to the local man who has pigs, Pigs like them. the trunk can be cut with a big sharp knife because they very soft, they grow very quickly,

Actually, some of the bananas in Thailand are so good it's mental. Well worth every satang.

Prices are up due to dry weather, banana plants (not trees) need lots of water, there are many diseases that attack plantations and that is an issue for the monocroppers, small patches and backyard growers are less vulnerable.

Where do you live and shop?

In westernized tourist Thailand and shopping at the supermarket?

I can buy a nice bunch of bananas for 5 baht.

But my neighbors usually give me more than I can eat for free.

When my own trees are not producing.

I'm guessing you need to get out and into the real Thailand.... and make some friends.

last purchase country side was 20 Baht for a small bunch and my wife thought that this is cheap.

And well the shops put half in the junk because not many customer.

We have many,i prefer the smaller sweeter varities,my wife tends to favour the bigger ones.

We have many,i prefer the smaller sweeter varities,my wife tends to favour the bigger ones.

As worse they look as better they taste in my survey

I grow about 5 types good for shade fast round a house.

Got Red ones then the normal Thai ones ( small) got dwarf cavendish gets about 6 foot high then fruits with

" normal size" bananas, about 8-9 inches long got some bigggggggg whoppa bananas more like a cucumber, dunno what they are and another one too but still dont know the names............many types available here bur RED ones my favourite.......very sweet.

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by kannot

They are keenly priced at 8 Baht to soak up my change when buying the Marlboro.....a healthy breakfast!

I grow about 5 types good for shade fast round a house.

Got Red ones then the normal Thai ones ( small) got dwarf cavendish gets about 6 foot high then fruits with

" normal size" bananas, about 8-9 inches long got some bigggggggg whoppa bananas more like a cucumber, dunno what they are and another one too but still dont know the names............many types available here bur RED ones my favourite.......very sweet.

I know those whoppa one's, a lady down the road has a couple of trees growing them,i tried one but it was pretty bland i have to say,have not come across the red one's.