Banana Production

As it is the case for most tropical products, due to the special climatic conditions needed to grow bananas, they are mainly produced in developing countries. Around 98% of world production is grown in developing countries. Developed countries are the usual destination for export bananas. In 2007, around 130 countries produced bananas. However, production, as well as exports and imports of bananas, are highly concentrated in a few countries. The 10 major banana producing countries accounted for more than 75% of total banana production in 2007. Furthermore, India, China, the Philippines, Brazil and Ecuador alone produced more than 60% of total world banana production. This concentration of banana production has increased over time although showing a different regional distribution. While America accounted for more than 50% of the world production in the 1970s, against 34% for Asia, the share of Asia began to increase in the course of the 1990s and the 2000s to finally reach 58% in 2007, against 31% the same year for America. The share of the African continent in the world production is remained relatively unchanged from the 1970s (13%) to the 2000s (11%).

Distribution of the world banana production by continent

Source: UNCTAD Secretariat from FAO statistics

Distribution of the world banana production by main actors
Average on the 2003-2007 period

Source: UNCTAD Secretariat from FAO statistics 

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Banana Market

Bananas are the main fruit in international trade and the most popular one in the world. In terms of volume they are the first exported fruit, while they rank second after citrus fruit in terms of value. Banana is a very delicate commodity on economic, social, environmental and political grounds. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Statistics estimations, world total exports of banana accounted for 16,8 million tonnes in 2006. Bananas are also a very important staple commodity for many developing countries, together with wheat, rice or corn, hence the relevance of bananas for food security. Some of the main banana producing countries, such as India or Brazil, are hardly involved in international trade. In fact, only about one fifth of total banana production is internationally traded . Nevertheless, the share of banana trade in world banana production increased slightly in the last decades (from around 18% in the sixties and seventies to over 22% in the 1990s and 2000s). The international banana market shows a highly regional character.

The banana industry is a very important source of income, employment and export earnings for major banana exporting countries, mainly developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Asia and Africa. According to FAO statistics, world banana exports are valued a total of US$5,8 billion in 2006, making them clearly a vital source of earnings to many countries. A strong bond exists between banana-generated income and household food security. Export volume or price changes bring about income changes for those directly employed in banana production, both as smallholder farmers and as wage earners on banana plantations. In addition, secondary and tertiary industries and their employees also feel the impacts of those changes".

Evolution or world production and international trade in bananas in thousands of tons (1961-2006)

Source: UNCTAD Secretariat from FAO statistics 

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Bananas

What do you think of when you hear the word banana? I think of a yellow fruit that monkeys like. There is much more to a banana than a yellow fruit that monkeys like. There is history and a lot of things facinating aobut bananas.

The word banana mens musa paradisca. Which means fruit of the wise men. The banana is said to have orighinbatd in Malaysia or Indonesia. The banana spread like the black plauge. Around the time of Columbus it spread to the Middle East. And sooner or later it reached the U.S.

The Banana is the most popular fruit in the United States. The bananas are harvested when the are green and they are alos shipped when green. Bananas have potasium, vitamins A and C and they are low in protein. Bananas have from 125 to 130 calorits. Bananas are also easily dijested. Bananas are 75% water.

There is a lot of vareteies of bananas. Bananas are berries. A berry is a fruit with seed in the middle and skin. Bananas don't grow on trees. when they grow they are just gigantic herbs with no trunks. There is only 1 stock per plant. It takes around 15 to 18 months to grow a stock. First they harvest the stalk. Then they cut it down. After that they cut the "mom" plant. Finally the roots send shoots up and it grows again.

Bananas are labeled with the names of their countries. Equador is the #1 exporter of Bananas. Another big exporter is honduras. A local experter in Greenfield is Equador. A foreign exporter is Taiwan.

In conclusion, now Whenever I hear the word bananas I will think of a berry that grows on a giant branch. A very nutritious fruit. It is the food of the gods. And finally it is a wildly consumed fruit.

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