date:Mar 03, 2014
led producers, mostly from Latin American countries, to sell their bananas at prices lower than what it costs to produce them.
Britain is the only European country in which this fruit is now cheaper than it was ten years ago. If a banana costs about 18 pence in the UK in 2002, it is now worth 11 pence; almost half of what an apple grown in Britain costs (20 pence).
The small farmers and the plantation workers are the collateral damage of the supermarkets' prices war. The poorest people are pa