what year were bananas brought to the americas
A Brief History of Bananas. A Brief History. Bananas were originally found in South East Asia, mainly in India. They were brought west by Arab conquerors in 327 B.C. and moved from Asia Minor to Africa and finally carried to the New World by the first explorers and missionaries to the Caribbean. The mass production of bananas started in 1834 and really started exploding in the late 1880âs. 1 Before the 1870âs most of the land that bananas were grown on in the Caribbean had been previously used to grow sugar.