When the Panama disease outbreak began, United Fruit ordered field workers to put disinfectant on their tools and clothing to decrease the spread of the disease. They burned the diseased plants, which took care of the infected bananas, but the companies still had problems with workers transferring the diseases. The spread of the disease was not intentional but it happened. This led United Fruit to start research programs in 1923 to combat the disease so it did not get worse. The US Department of Agriculture had argued that growing a disease-resistant species would have a higher success rate, such as the “Chinese banana”. However, this fruit has a short shelf life and was not very marketable to purchase. So both the US and UK research programs both began breeding programs to develop disease resistant varieties, but unfortunately this was not successful either. It was difficult to find a product that worked, the biology didn't work, the farms kept moving to healthier soils, and this created schisms between the companies and the government. Diseases were increasing production costs and land use, and fruit farms were already under public scrutiny for their land expropriations and extensive holdings. Everyone needed a solution; the solution was when Cavendish bananas began to be packaged during production, thus opening jobs to women. All the bananas on their way to the