SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Ecuadorian banana exports from Jan. to Feb. 2023, amounted to 66.8 million boxes, 0.47% lower than in the same period of 2022. Primary markets for Ecuadorian bananas As for the destination of Ecuadorian banana exports, of the 66.86 million boxes exported in the first two monthsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Policy makers and experts from the banana sector and non-profit organisations gathered in Berlin earlier this month to hear about the sustainability efforts of Ecuador’s banana sector. The event, which took place in the auspices of Fruit Logistica, discussed the progress made so far, and exploredContinue Reading
SOURCE: El Universo TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) convened the first meeting to try to reach a consensus between the different parts of the banana sector on the price that will govern fruit exports in 2023. The first meeting was held last Monday and, since thereContinue Reading
by Eduardo, 247 News Agency The Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and BanEcuador presented a proposal this Sunday “to relieve financial pressure” faced by banana producers due to the war in Ukraine which has affected the trade of this fruit, of which Ecuador is the world’s leading exporter. ItContinue Reading
by Lisbeth Zumba, Expreso translation: Freshplaza Producers and authorities continue to define a short-term solution for the fruit that hasn’t been sold since the war conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, and whose value would amount to more than $45 million, according to Acorbanec. This week, representatives of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Yury Garcia, The Star Banana growers from three provinces in Ecuador blocked main roads across the South American country on Monday to demand government action to boost prices they say are too low for them to meet production costs. Growers were blocking major highways in the provinces of ElContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mercopress Ecuadorian banana producers in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro, have staged road blockades demanding the government to step in and purchase the surplus resulting from Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. “We request that the President of the Republic, with the surpluses from oilContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ecuador Times The banana producers propose to the Government the creation of a contingency fund with their own financing (from the banana producers themselves), through the withholding of $0.05 per box sold to minimize the losses that may be caused by the war between Russia and Ukraine. This alternativeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liza Sambrano, Expreso TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The presidents of Ecuador and the People’s Republic of China, Guillermo Lasso and Xi Jinping, reached an agreement in the Memorandum of Understanding for the signing of a Free Trade Agreement. This trade agreement would be very important for the Ecuadorian banana sector asContinue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Ecuadorean banana exports rallied in the fourth quarter of 2021 to finish the year on 378.2m boxes according to the latest figures from Acorbanec. This was a decrease of less than 1 per cent on the 2020 total. Between October and December, shipments totalled 96m boxes,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Lucía Vásconez, El Comercio TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Data published by the Central Bank of Ecuador (ECB) confirms that banana and plantain exports between January and August 2021 have decreased when compared to the same period of the previous year. In this period, shipments of Musaceae to international markets reached aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Stephan Kueffner, Bloomberg Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter, is on high alert for its vital crop as neighboring Peru grapples with an outbreak of a fungus deadly to the tropical fruit. “We’ve reinforced practically everything,” Agriculture Minister Xavier Lazo said in an interview, after confirming with Peru’s governmentContinue Reading