Best-selling fruit will take four days to reach supermarket against 24 days from central America – but won't be Fairtrade
Supermarket chain Asda is to be the first to sell bananas from the Canary Islands, in an attempt to reduce the fruit's considerable carbon footprint. Transportation time will be more than 80 per cent...
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