date:Feb 26, 2014
The UK Government is being urged to launch an investigation into price wars that are holding down the price of bananas and could force farmers in developing countries out of business.
Over the past 10 years, the price of bananas in the UK has halved, while the cost of production to the farmers has almost doubled. Supermarkets in the UK now buy and sell bananas so cheaply that many of the farmers and workers who grow them are being trapped in poverty.
That's according to research commissioned