Asian bananas to make debut on US shelves
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The Philippines has officially become the first Asian country to export bananas to the United States, with the first shipment of the highland Cavendish variety from Bukidnon arriving in California last week.
“We’re excited to see our very own bananas in grocery stores in California soon,” Consul General Hellen Barber-de la Vega said, after she inspected the products at the ripening warehouse on Sunday. “We waited eight years for this to happen.”
Seven tonnes of the bananas arrived on September 9 at Long Beach in Los Angeles County as part of the 3,000 tonnes the US plans to import from the Philippines this year, the Philippine Embassy said in a statement.
