date:Mar 21, 2017
on of new small-scale planters, we expect to produce about 500,000 tonnes of bananas within two years, Emmanuel Dolly, executive secretary of the country's main fruit exporters' organisation OBAMCI, told Reuters.
Ivory Coast produced about 280,000 tonnes of bananas in 2016.
The two new companies, BANACI and SIAPA, both from the Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, should be able to produce a combined 200,000 tonnes in the next two years, Dolly said.
Six large companies currently account