Below me was village, nestled deep in a cleft. The surrounding hills were lavishly adorned with sprawling woodlands, skirting and dividing many farm fields in which wheat was beginning to ripen, hedgerows subdividing these further. The sky was a cloudless blue and a cooling breeze pleasantly tempered sun's heat.

It was a view I'd seen many times and I thought back to very first time I'd gazed upon it; to how beautiful it had looked and how breathtaking. Only by now I had grown accustomed to scene, seldom stopping to look at it. So I stood, and stared. And tried to see it in same way that I had seen it before, that first time.

There are two primary fungal diseases attacking banana plantation, Panama disease and black Sigatoka. Biotechnology and genetic manipulation may be only way to save fruit. Scientists hope to find disease-resistant genes from a non-edible variation of banana, and then inject them in edible ones. Unfortunately, it's difficult to develop genetic variance in asexually reproducing plants. Cross-pollination with these wild plants is possible, but scientists claim it won't be easy.