Bananas are the fifth largest agricultural commodity in world trade after cereals, sugar, coffee and cocoa. India, Ecuador, Brazil and China alone produce half of total bananas of the world. The advantage of this fruit is its availability round the year.

Banana is one of the major and economically important fruit crop of India.

Buddhist texts of 600 BC for the first time in history mention banana as a highly nutritive food. Their chronicles describe a beverage derived from banana which the monks were allowed to drink.

Banana is a globally important fruit crop with 97.5 million tones of production. In India it supports livelihood of millions of people with total annual production of 16.91 million tones from 490.70 thousand ha. with national average of 33.5 T/ha. Banana contributes 37% to total fruit production in India.

Presently I am travelling in Tamil Nadu and find this fruit most delicious and nourishing!

I took this shot yesterday while driving down the busy roads of Chennai (aka Madras) and you will find the banana bunch hanging in front of every petty shop. You will also see vendors selling them in push carts along with other fruits.

I took this shot from a distance of 20? as the shop was on the other side of the road and I could not cross the road!

Camera: Canon SX130IS, handheld, standard settings, zoomed, image cropped and slightly adjusted for brightness and clarity. Image resized to Far requirements.
Enjoy!