Banana sectors in Africa are concerned about the pressure exerted on wages

Tension is mounting in the African banana ranks in the face of the rising cost of living and therefore increased pressure on the legal fixing of a living wage in the African sectors, pressure that has long been conveyed by certain NGOs. Officials of the Afruibana association, which represents banana producers in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon, met at the end of last week in Cameroon with the Ministers of Agriculture and Trade to raise awareness of the difficulty of raise wages in the sectors. They had done the same the previous week in Ghana and Ivory Coast. They are said to have called for urgent government aid to raise wages, believing that fair trade advocates will soon impose it on the banana industry, as the wage could be considered unfair competition. It should be recalled that at the beginning of June, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on minimum wages in the EU within the framework of the Green Deal. This should impact the overseas departments ...