99 of bananas exported to developed
countries are just one group called the
cavendish out in the field workers
measure the banana fingers to make sure
they're ready to harvest
one worker cuts down a 65 pound bundle
while the other catches it and carries
it to the cableway that cableway system
brings all those banana bunches to the
packaging plant first workers sanitize
the bunches with chlorine they cut off
and throw bushels into a huge tank the
bananas get cut into smaller bunches of
five to seven workers wrap the banana
carefully so they don't bruise that
wrapping has holes in it so the bananas
can ripen as they travel no more than
four hours after the bananas are
harvested those boxes end up on pallets
loaded onto trucks the bananas are
trucked to the nearby port where they're
moved onto ships