European plantain and banana producers, grinded by the increase in costs and the absence of conditions for exports

A representation of all European plantain and banana producers from the Canary Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Madeira have met these days with the aim of analyzing the growing economic crisis that they have suffered in 2023. The producers of the three community countries have agreed that the main causes of their situation are: the excessive increase in production costs, up to 30% in many cases in just two years; climate change, which has placed its production at levels never seen historically; unequal community regulations in social, environmental and food safety conditions, which increasingly favors production from third countries; and the use of imported bananas as a distribution brand as opposed to the application of much higher margins to European production. The combination of all these circumstances has taken community plantain and banana production to a new extreme situation, according to what they denounce. In France, production has ended 2023 in negative numbers, ...