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Ecuador: Strike causes immense losses for banana, broccoli, and flower sectors

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Ecuador
Published Jul 2, 2022

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After 16 days of demonstrations and production stoppages, the Ecuadorian non-oil export sector has suffered a loss of $85 million. An estimated 86% of the impact was concentrated on flowers, bananas and broccoli. The banana sector was hit at $32 million, the broccoli sector at $6.1 million, the pitahaya at $1.2 million and finally the granadilla at $221,000.

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Within the non-oil export sector, floriculture was hardest hit by the national strike with a loss of $34.7 million, followed by bananas at $32 ...
Source: AGF

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