date:Jan 28, 2013
Pakistan, Jordan and some Middle East countries also opened their market, Barron said.
Barron also said that shipments to China had begun to improve as Beijing had noted an improvement in the quality of the fruit.
Barron said of the 3.8 million metric tons exported last year, China bought about 400,000 metric tons of Cavendish bananas from the Philippines. China remained the third biggest importer of bananas next to Japan which bought more than 1 million metric tons and Korea with 500,000 met