date:Apr 23, 2014
tons of fresh bananas exported to the worlds markets.
According to Dusunceli, this is equivalent to a whopping 93.9 percent of all banana exports coming from Asia alone.
Ecuador, still the worlds largest banana exporter,had lower output as flooding from hurricanes damaged vast areas of all its banana plantations. Its shipments of bananas went down as much as 410,000 metric tons or about 5.6 percent of its 2011 exports, according to the FAO report.
While banana exports from South America decli