Is the BANANA origin of INDIA?
There is a wide variety of historic references to bananas. They are mentioned in ancient Hindu, Chinese, Greek and Roman texts. It is believed that the earliest written reference to banana is in Sankrist and dates back to around 500 BC. Bananas are suspected to be the first fruit in the earth by some horticulturists. The origin of bananas is placed in Southeast Asia, in the jungles of MALAYSIA, INDONESIA OR PHILIPPINES, where so many varieties of wild bananas still grow at present. Bananas have later travelled with human population. The first Europeans to know about bananas were the armies of Alexander the Great, while they were campaigning in INDIA in 327 BC. http://www.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/b… India is the leading banana producer, however.
