date:Feb 26, 2014
by the Fairtrade Foundation, which showed that people in the UK typically pay 11p for a loose banana compared with 18p a decade ago, while a loose apple grown in the UK now costs 20p.
The report, entitled 'Britain's Bruising Banana Wars' further exposes the real impact British supermarket price wars are having on banana farmers and workers and their families. The resulting drop in export prices for bananas in producing countries means an ever-tightening squeeze on what producers earn for their