Effort to Grow Bananas in Snow Bears Fruit

Effort to grow bananas in snow bears fruit

FUKUI, Japan – A farmer in snowy Fukui City ships tropical bananas year-round.

Japanese grower cultivates bananas year-round in snowy Fukui

A grower in Fukui City, Japan, is producing bananas year-round under greenhouse conditions despite the region's cold and snowy climate. Naoki Ejima, 63, previously worked as a pharmacist at a local drugstore but left the position before retirement age to focus on banana cultivation. In 2021, he began…