Farmers

Any farmers on here?

I was just wondering how much investment would be required to successfully grow bananas commercially in Barnsley? Would it cost more than paying to transport them from the Caribbean? And how much pollution would it avoid?

 

I used to work in the banana industry,,,, it’s absolutely bent!

 

I think the fact they’ve never been grown commercially outside the tropics suggests it’d be uneconomical

it’d probably cost more in fuel to produce them than it does to transport them.

OTTOMH

 

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You could build it next to some industrial complex that creates a lot of heat - furnace, power station etc.

Then vent the heat into greenhouses and do it that way.

Would probably require a lot of cash to start with.

 

I picked Bananas when I was in Australia. ******* terrifying some of the lizard were massive not to
Mention the spiders.

 

At least now we're out of Europe we can have them as bendy as we like.

 

And that was just in the produce aisle in Coles...

 

Or you could just bypass the meter, that would save loads of energy.

 

Oyyyyyy get off my land

 

Stinking rich.

 

Back in the last century Locke Park used to have tropical plants growing in massive greenhouses, at the Park Road end alongside high stone walls.

Bananas were grown there but I have no idea if they were edible

 

I remember as a youngster going to Locke park.
I'm sure I remember a banana plant in the large greenhouse there ?.
Or am I going bananas

 

Posted seconds too late aaaagh

 

I was once asked to do some work at a Banana ripening plant in Wakefield - Keetings or something. I thought my boss was winding me up, but aye, never seen so many bananas in my life. Foreman gave me a factory tour and explained it all. Bottom line is that every banana arrives in the UK many weeks before they are actually ready, and the ripening plant finishes off the growing process prior to shipping them out for sale.

Fascinating.

I once worked in a paper factory briefly too and I have similar *interesting* tales about paper

 

I once worked in an Origami factory but sadly it folded

 

I worked at a submarine plant, that went under too.