A worker at a banana plantation in Santa Marta, Colombia, in December 2000. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes ...

The company Chiquita was formed out of a defunct United ... The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World.” "A banana plantation is a factory,” he said. “It is a factory that produces a ...

Chiquita, based in North Carolina ... Black Sigatoka has proven itself curiously resistant to the fungicides already widely deployed in banana plantations. Farmers have resorted to spraying crops ...