date:Mar 17, 2014
anana production covers 6,412 hectares with yields of 2,230 boxes per hectare, and creates more than 6,600 jobs.
Panama exported 1.1 million more boxes in 2013 than in the previous year.
The national director of bananas, Felix Barra Stanziola said the fall in exports to the United States was due to the economic situation that country continues to face and to the tariff preferences they have been giving their former colonies.
He disclosed that they were taking steps to ensure that transnationa