date:Mar 07, 2014
bout 3,888 tonnes of bananas nationwide in the last month, Ruiz estimated.
In turn CEPIBO, the second biggest national exporter of bananas, estimated that this year's production could shrink by 50% if the rains didn't improve in March. Yields used to be of about 1,500 cases per hectare in a year, and it's probable that they will decrease this year, said a spokesman.
He said that the Chira Valley, in Piura, was supplied with water from the Poechos reservoir, which had a water capacity of 90 mil