A fungus with no known remedy is threatening the world’s supply of bananas.

Experts are calling the Fusarium TR4 fungus unstoppable and while it’s been destroying crops in Asia it has now reached South America.

While on the NL Morning News, the Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, Dr Sylvain Charlebois, said while bananas may not disappear, there will be consequences. “If you’re asking me, are we going to run out of bananas in Canada? I highly doubt, but at the same time we may actually see bananas becoming more expensive.”

“That’s certainly a reality we’re going to have to face at some point.”

Charlebois said the fungus has been discovered in Columbia and expects it to spread into Ecuador soon.

He said one problem is the fact that bananas come from mostly third world countries. “These are grown in areas of the world where poverty is a real issue and that’s why there hasn’t been much research conducted to support bananas.”

Canada imports over 600 million dollars worth of bananas every year with the average Canadian eating more than 15 kilograms of the fruit.

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