date:Feb 20, 2019
According to representatives of the sector, after last year's results, this year producing and marketing companies are betting on new markets and making more investments to achieve a high profitability.
Julio Merida, the executive director of the Association of Independent Banana Producers (APIB), said that the sector had registered a high productivity and that the upward variation of exports had been influenced by the depressed prices of coffee and sugar.
90% of what Guatemala produces goes t