date:Mar 03, 2014
ying the price for our cheap bananas, said Michael Gidney, the executive director of Fairtrade, at a press conference in London.
Alfonso Cantillo, a Colombian producer of bananas from the region of Magdalena who sells to the UK and was invited to London by Fairtrade, said he receives $8.15 dollars per box - about 18 kilos- but that it cost him $9 dollars to produce it.
When banana prices decrease, we suffer the impact. Our living conditions worsen. We need stability in prices, he added.
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