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...As
the bananas get through
the first cleaning, they are
further scrubbed by human
hands...
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And
again deposited into
another round of cleaning
water...
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...and
make their towards
the fumigation box and
the packaging area...
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Next
run through a
fumigation system and the
little Chiquita sticker is
put on every bunch.
As I photographed this
part of the process, all the
men began to whistle in
favour of my compositional
choice; she was the babe!
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men that box them...
(you do not see here the
people that put the boxes
into place on the runners)
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Each
box, the same you see
in your local market, is
hand packed and...
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...weighed
on the scale...
(this one weighs 18 kilos)
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...and
goes right into the
truck that will bring them
straight to the...
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...ship
that will transport the
bananas to nearly every
banana eating port of
call in the world.
(Here shown is the ship
Chiquita Deutschland).
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