Bananas are fairly easy to cultivate in tropical climates, so large plantations have sprung up in Central America, Africa, and East Asia.

They can be grown year-round, and are fairly productive plants that start popping out bananas rapidly - you don’t have to wait years and years like many other fruit-bearing trees.

A lot of other fruits are seasonal, slow growing, or difficult to cultivate outside of their native range.

There are downsides though - banana farming is labor intensive and the plants are highly susceptible to some infections because they’re all clones.