Banana Timeline

Banana Timeline

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1951-1952

1871 - 1880

1929

1969

2006

Jacob Arbenz is the first elected president in Central America. He became a huge threat to United Fruit, so they teamed up with America against him due to untrue claims of Communistic presence in Guatemalan government.

Banana companies still had a lot of political and international power.

Minor C. Keith cleared the rainforest in Costa Rica for a national railroad. He planted banana trees beside the tracks to feed his workers. He eventually teamed up with Lorenzo Dow Baker and Andrew Preston (two elites in the banana industry) to use the trains to export bananas.

This leads to United Fruit (formerly called Boston Fruit) to later infrastructure initiatives in countries were banana companies had political power.

At this time, banana companies had massive political power in several countries. The countries were called Banana Republics. Banana companies suppressed a large group of Colombian banana plantation workers using violent means called the Colombian Massacre of 1929.

Although banana companies are not the sole blame, they had a hand in the severe issues that Columbia faces today.

Cavendish bananas begins to finally replace the former Gros Michel in large-scale. Bananas are shipped in boxes now due to the delicacy of Cavendish bananas.

In only 9 years, the banana swap would be finished entirely and no more Gros Michel bananas would be sold.

A program called No End to the Banana starts upon the creation of the first and only national banana-research laboratory in Uganda for bioengineered banana hybrid seeds to develop.

This is the world's latest attempt to stop the extinction of the beloved banana.

1958

1972

1900

1935

1870

Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) finally recognized the end of the Gros Michel banana and began to experiment for a replacement export banana.

Formerly, the company only attempted to pick as much of the banana as possible before the plantations would be ruined.

Panama Disease is identified in Java, although it is still unnamed and the world is still unaware what danger this could be to the banana.

Sigatoka is identified in Central America. Bordeaux Mixture is created to save the banana crops, but is proven to be deadly to the workers who are paid to spray the chemicals.

United Fruit decided to move to new locations and abandon old plantations as soon as they became unusable. This process would continue to be used for several more years.

The term "Banana Republic" became used commonly.

After finding some bananas in Jamaica, Lorenzo Dow Baker completes the first sale of bananas in America.

In only 15 years after this transaction, Baker creates the first banana importing company, Boston Fruit (today known as Chiquita.)

This is the very start of the globalization of the banana, and the power struggle between opposing banana companies.

Black Sigatoka is discovered. It can only be controlled through very expensive chemicals and processes. Companies without large plantations cannot fight the new strand of the disease.

By: Meredith Hall