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The LATAM Taskforce, a consortium of banana producers and exporters of Latin America, meets this week at the Fruit Logistica fair in Berlin to engage
Ecuadorian banana exports reached 292 million boxes during 2022, with the EU market representing 26% of total shipments. According to a study by DATACOMEX and
This Thursday the current situation of the European banana was analyzed, and the worrying loss of absolute value and saturation of the banana and banana market in the EU.
The European Commission has agreed this week not to suspend the preferential customs tariff on imports of bananas from Nicaragua, although they have already exceeded the limit of imports foreseen in their agreement with the European Union for the whole year from the same month of March.
The Association of European Producers of Banana and Banana (APEB), of which the Association of Organizations of Producers of Banana of the Canary Islands (ASPROCAN) is part, has made this week a series of meetings with the aim of specifying the new steps of the sector in the European Union.
Representatives of the European Banana and Banana Producers Association (APEB) have met in Paris to review and review the latest actions developed at European level with the European Commission with regard to budgets within the framework of the POSEI.
Plátano de Canarias maintains its historical marketing figures for 2016, with a total of 255 million kilograms sold in August 2017 in the Peninsula, 23 million kilos above the average of the last six years. These sales are very close to those reached in the same period of 2016, with 259 million kilos.
Representatives of ASPROCAN Banana Growers Organizations have visited Casablanca these days to learn firsthand about the opportunities available for banana exports from the Canary Islands to Morocco. In this trip, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX), the Canarian delegation has held meetings with the main horticultural companies of distribution and maturation of Moroccan bananas and with interest in the introduction of the Canarian Plantain in the market of that country.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru (MINAGRI) published its growth projections for 2016, namely 3.4%. The sectoral growth outlook for the end of 2015 is 2.8%, explained by the behavior of livestock production that reached 5.5% and agricultural subsector which reached 1.0%, according to official data.
