Latin American bananas in jeopardy due to low prices in German supermarkets

(Agraria.pe) The banana producer and exporter associations of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, and the Dominican Republic rejected the offer by the German supermarket Kaufland to offer consumers 1 kilogram of Latin American bananas for €0.88. In a joint statement, the industry indicated that this practice is detrimental to the sustainability of the banana sector, as it hides the reality of banana production in the region, which is increasingly constrained by certification requirements and regulations in destination markets that impose high costs on producers. Supermarkets and discount stores obscure the real efforts of sustainable and aesthetically pleasing production to inconsistent standards. From the sector's perspective, European supermarkets and discounters continue to offer empty rhetoric focused on sustainability, which is far from the reality of their actions and measures. Rather, they continue to demonstrate a lack of coherence and a real commitment, and ...