It is not difficult to find bananas in Japan as they are sold in any supermarket or convenience store. Photo: ABC. However, bananas are still a rare fruit in the land of the rising sun, because 99.98% of bananas in this country are imported. Only 0.02% of the bananas on the market are grown locally. Photo: Japan Times. It is quite surprising that these few bananas come from Hokkaido – the coldest area in Japan even though bananas are a tropical fruit. Photo: Soranews24. The type of banana grown in Hokkaido is called 946 and the price is not cheap. Photo: Soranews24 The price of a 946 banana is 1,080 Yen, equivalent to 230,000 VND, 20 times the price of an imported banana in Japanese grocery stores. Photo: Soranews24 Even a box of three bananas is more expensive than buying three individual fruits because there is also the cost of packaging as a gift. Photo: Soranews24 Accordingly, a box is 4,860 Yen (about more than one million dong). The price surprised many people. Photo: Soranews24 Japan’s 946 bananas are quite large in size, equivalent in length but “fatter” than bananas imported from other countries. Photo: Soranews24 Like most fruits in Japan, banana 946 is grown with a clean process, without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They have a sweet but not overpowering taste, with just the right amount of moisture and scent. Photo: Soranews24 In particular, banana peels are thinner than regular bananas and are described as “thin enough to be eaten”. Even 946 banana peels can be sautéed like the traditional Japanese vegetable kinpira gobo. Photo: Soranews24 Video: 9x boy is passionate about growing clean bananas Source: VTV24

Old South American bananas are selling cheap lottery There are both yellow and green bananas sold here. The common point is that the goods sold here are large in size compared to normal, many people call “giant” bananas. On Nguyen Oanh street (Go Vap district), just on a short road, there are 2 places selling “cheap” old bananas at the price of 6,000 VND / kg, attracting quite a lot of buyers. Young men selling here said that because they cannot be exported this year, bananas are so cheap. Dong Nai banana retail in HCMC is only 6,000 VND / kg Ms. Tran Thi Mai, a nearby house, said she bought a large bunch, weighing up to 6 kg, to try it. “I bought it when the fruit was still green, but the next day it was ripe, soft and sweet, and they would sell it for a long time. Normally, this banana has to cost 10,000-15,000 VND / kg.” – Ms. Mai said. Bananas are cheap, consumers can choose freely, can buy less than 1 bunch Mr. Do Ngoc Chat, Director of Viet A Agrifood Co., Ltd. (Ho Chi Minh City) – specializing in the official export of fruit to China, said that due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the main market for bananas was China, the purchasing power decreased. Old bananas at supermarkets are also on a discount, from the original price of 20,900 VND / kg to 12,000 VND / kg “But the banana area increased a lot. Previously, Vietnam mainly competed with bananas from the Philippines, now there are many newly opened farms in Cambodia and Laos with an area of ​​thousands of hectares. We currently buy bananas that meet export standards. about 5,000 VND / kg while before and immediately after Tet is 14,000 VND / kg. This price, farmers do not have much income because the cultivated area is small, mostly less than 1 ha “- Mr. Chat said. Bananas that are too old can only be sold domestically And Mr. Ly Minh Hung, Director of Thanh Binh Cooperative (Dong Nai), specializing in old South American bananas, said that the banana industry was oversupply. “Farmers grow spontaneously in bulk while large farms follow the contract to spread crops less affected. Bananas are too cheap, farmers keep waiting for price increases, but bananas are too old, too size to be exported. The oversized banana here farmers sell only 2,000 VND / kg, many people suffer losses.With bananas that are too big can only be sold fresh in the domestic market, plastic and dried banana processors are also excluded because it was not uniform. ” – Mr. Hung explained.