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A farm in Panama. Major agricultural products in Panama include bananas and other fruit, corn, sugar, rice, coffee, shrimp, timber, vegetables, and livestock. [2] As of 1996, the important agricultural product exports included bananas ($96.4 million), shrimp ($29.2 million), sugar ($14.1 million), coffee ($11.3 million), and beef ($2.9 million).
Fairchild is grown on a limited commercial basis in Hawaii and Panama, and has seen some commercial plantings in Florida as well. While the fruit lacks the color desired of some major commercial mango cultivars such as Tommy Atkins, it possesses qualities that give it potential for wider commercial adaptation. These include flavor, excellent ...
Bananas were the leading export item, and in 1985 accounted for 23 percent (US$78 million) of total exports. [1] In that year, the Chiriquí Land Company, a subsidiary of United Brands (formerly United Fruit Company), produced 70 percent of all bananas, followed by private Panamanian producers (25 percent) and the state-owned Corporación Bananera del Atlántico (5 percent). [1]
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits , commonly called quenepa, ‘’’kenèp’’’ or guinep , are edible.
Solanum quitoense, known as naranjilla [3] (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾaŋˈxiʝa], "little orange") in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama and as lulo ([ˈlulo], from Quechua) in Colombia, is a tropical perennial plant from northwestern South America.
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
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Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae.It is native to the Isthmus of Panama, where it was domesticated. [3] It has spread to the Greater Antilles and the West Indies and is now grown throughout the tropics, including Southeast Asia. [4]