European banana producers call on the European Commission to take urgent action

The representation of European banana producers from France, Portugal and Spain has met in Brussels with technical managers from the Directorate General for Agriculture and Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission to monitor the serious climatic, commercial and regulatory context that the sector is facing and which has caused a serious crisis of economic viability. At the meeting, a preliminary step to the meetings that are also planned with the MEPs of the different groups of the European Parliament starting tomorrow Tuesday, the difficulties faced by banana production in the Canary Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Madeira were exposed, and among which the excessive increase in cultivation and export costs stands out, as well as the market context generated by the growing unfair competition from imported bananas, to which the same environmental and production criteria are not applied. The European banana representation has made the request to examine this ...