- Bananas are normally
categorized
as dessert bananas or cooking bananas. Cooking bananas are popular
in many African and Asian
countries, while about 30 percent of world banana production are
dessert banana with Cavendish as the most traded variety.
- The market for organic
bananas in Asia is still developing and the outlook is for its
future development and adoption is positive.
- Plants produced
through tissue culture are mostly free from pests
and diseases . There are many further benefits to using tissue
culture plants
- Bananas are grown in
plantations of different sizes, from small-scale in some areas, for
instance the Windward Islands, to large-scale farms, for instance in
Costa Rica.
- The ownership of farms
is diverse: some are in the hands of local growers, others are
controlled or owned by cooperatives, local large companies or
multinational banana importers
- Bananas are the fifth
largest agricultural commodity in world
trade after cereals, sugar, coffee and
cocoa.
- India, Ecuador, Brazil
and China alone produce half of total bananas of the world. The
advantage of this fruit is its availability round the year.
- The major banana
exporting countries are Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and
Philippines and the major importing countries are USA, Belgium,
Germany and United Kingdom
- The supply and value
chain of a banana before it reaches the final consumer is complex.
It
includes production, packaging, domestic and international
transportation, marketing, handling and merchandising at
supermarkets, among other links. The two most expensive links in the
supply and
value chain are shipping costs and supermarket/retailer expenses
- The EU is the largest
consumer and importer of bananas in the world
- During shipping,
bananas need to be stored at low temperatures . Traditionally this
was done in refrigerated cargo ships or "conventional reefers.
Nowadays, containerised liner shipping companies also offer
significant capacity for transport in refrigerated standard sized
containers.
- Upon arrival in ports
of destination fruit is discharged by cranes and transported by
trucks or feeder ships to short-term cold storage facilities
or directly to the ripening facilities.
- Banana imports must
meet the requirements of the destination country Marketing
Standards Regulation
- Market Share of a few
top players is huge reaching out to 30 to 45 % of world market for
Bananas
- Largest Exports of
Bananas are from Ecuador
- In Ecuador, in
contrast to other banana producing countries, the most important and
well-known brands of the world are produced and marketed in a
variety of types of boxes of bananas to meet the
requirements of consumers worldwide
- Ecuador exports
bananas and plantains to over 50 countries every year. The main
destinations for banana exports are the EU, the United States and
Russia, concentrating more than 80 percent of sales on average.
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Philippines Banana Industry
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The Pineapple and Banana Sector - Sri
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The banana chain in Somalia
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Regulatory Issues
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German banana value
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The World Banana Trade
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Top Brand
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Profile
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Multinational Companies in the Global Banana Trade
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