BANANAS WOHOO

It is well known that Costa Rica has a very large banana industry. I have not had a chance to visit any of the local banana plantation so all my information is based off of the internet and is fact based.  I think we will be going to a banana plantation in a week or so, and i will give you  my personal experience. All i can say right now is that Jamie, my roommate, and i have bananas for every morning for breakfast and they are very fresh. So here are some extremely interesting facts about bananas in COSTA RICA¡¡¡¡

Bananas were first brought to Costa Rica sometime after the spanish invasion, along with most of the countries exports. Recently bananas have taken over tourism as the the number one foreign currency earner. The banana industry is rapidly growing. Bananas first entered the United States through the city of New Orleans in 1870. Bananas are and extremely labor intensive crop to grow and harvest that takes a lot of pesticides and chemicals to maintain. Many of the workers in Costa Rica are extremely underpaid and face many health problems due to the chemicals. This was very different back in the day. Workers used to be highly skilled and well paid employees.