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Michigan State University professor of supply chain management Jason Miller told Yahoo Finance that if the strike goes on longer than two weeks, “we may not have bananas in certain parts of the ...
Grocery store supply chain impact. Mark Ferguson is an associate dean at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.Grocery stores across the Carolinas that lost power and ...
Commercial banana production in the United States is relatively limited in scale and economic impact. While Americans eat 26 pounds (12 kg) of bananas per person per year, the vast majority of the fruit is imported from other countries, chiefly Central and South America, where the US has previously occupied areas containing banana plantations, and controlled the importation of bananas via ...
The first dockworkers strike at major East and Gulf coast ports in almost half a century could soon mean shortages of bananas and pricier imported cherries at U.S. grocery stores. That's because ...
As is the case with all monocultures, the intensive agroindustrial methods for banana production have considerable environmental impact. Banana cultivation requires a large amount of pesticide (estimate: 35 lb/acre, 39 kg/ha) and can encourage ecosystem destruction through deforestation.
See which items experts say could be harder to find on Carolina shelves, or cost more, after Hurricane Helene and during dockworker strike.
Three-quarters of the nation's banana imports from countries like Guatemala and Ecuador land at ports on the East and Gulf Coasts, said Jason Miller, interim chair of Michigan State University's ...
Snarled supply chains were a massive aspect of pandemic-era disruptions globally, and ongoing issues may continue to wreak havoc in the U.S. economy despite recent easing. “It's still a major ...