While the Cavendish hasn’t experienced a fungal incidence of the scale that wiped out the Gros Michel cultivar, it is still extremely vulnerable to the Panama disease, and almost all banana cultivation in the world, including in India, relies on petro-chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides. This is especially true for the Cavendish, which does not propagate sexually but is propagated clonally in monocultures, which makes it increasingly vulnerable to pests and the Panama disease. Nishant K., a banana farmer, believes that it is nearly impossible to grow bananas organically, and some scientists also believe that the Cavendish, much like its predecessor Gros Michel, may be wiped out soon regardless of our carbon interventions to protect it.