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You can't just grow plantain anywhere. If you could, it would have been happening long ago...

Avocados, for example, originate in the America's but they also grow well in southern Africa. Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes are also much more versatile - which is why they're also found everywhere (including North Africa). Plantain however is a tropical plant, it needs rich dark, fertile soil, plenty of water, a constant temperature and shelter (think "rainforest"). You cannot just irrigate a strip of desert and grow plantain. This is why plantains mostly grow in south eastern Asia, south and central America, and sub Saharan and central Africa...

Potatoes need a lot of space, and are very labour intensive. It's perfectly possible to grow banana's instead. Over here you can get 5 for a euro, that is not because of farming handouts but just because it's really easy. They got all the fibres and vitamines you could possibly want. Growing grains is a lot harder, you need to rotate land every year if you don't nurse the soil, banana trees will however always keep giving. Perfect.