date:Jul 17, 2013
for Food Security in the Ribeira Valley (Consad), Andrade is willing to discuss with other ministries ways of preventing the Ecuadorian fruit from entering the country.
According to CONABAN, even though Ecuador is the largest exporter of bananas in the world, only five multinational companies control 80% of the fruit's international trade, monopolizing the production and trade in that country.
Brazil is the third largest banana producer in the world, producing 7.5 million tonnes per year, behi