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TommyT139

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4. Perhaps the word "cheaply" matters here
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:56 PM
Jun 2025

Per Wikipedia, besides Hawaii and Florida, as areas where bananas can grow:

Other states that remain popular locations for independent banana farming, which usually only export on a highly domestic level, are Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, and California....


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_the_United_States

But they don't have the long history of mass production at low pay, with few protections for workers.

Bananas can be grown up into Ohio, on the New England coast, on Long Island...just not at industrial scale, it seems.

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