• ENGLISH
  • ESPAÑOL
facebook
twitter
  • National>Entertainment
  • National>Local Economics
  • National>Local Politics
  • National>Society
  • National>Sports
BREAKING NEWS
This is how Quaker oats are made, a product that has been in Ecuador for several decades
Economy in 2024: stagnant, without the ITT and with a mining sector in decline
Bird flu detected in dead birds in Galapagos
El Niño phenomenon: alert status changes from yellow to orange in Ecuador
The United States is the first destination for Ecuadorian organic bananas
Ecuador incorporates 65 thousand new hectares of forest under conservation
Foreign Ministry must rent 59 premises abroad so that 390,000 migrants can vote
Italian mafia has ‘interests’ in Ecuador and other countries in the region
Ecuadorians have fewer children; 600,000 fewer babies than expected since 2010
Memorandum between the US and Ecuador has 169 objectives to strengthen security

A hard blow to banana farmers

Posted On 13 Jul 2017

Ecuadornews:

 

 

Hollywood-style “vampirism” is “trendy” again among the plans of banana farmers that, burdened by low prices, must immediately reduce their production.
Nailing a stake into the heart of the plants is the option before scandalously low prices of $ 2 and $ 2.50 per box, paid to independent farmers. The value defined by the Government is $ 6.26.
“The scenario is complicated,” says Richard Salazar, CEO of Acorbanec. The excessive harvest of Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala has caused an oversupply not only in the United States and Europe but also in Ecuador’s most important market: Russia.
There is no unified criterion on the duration of this crisis, but it could last between 10 and 15 weeks since in the summer the productivity is lower. The guild is paying the official price but not for so long. (I)

 

Source: http://www.expreso.ec/economia/les-llega-un-golpe-duro-a-los-bananeros-FD1544272

About the Author
  • google-share
Previous Story

The ATM will open a file of the agent that disclosed video in social networks

Next Story

Correa accuses Moreno of “shameful appeasement” before Peru

SEARCH

LATEST NEWS

This is how Quaker oats are made, a product that has been in Ecuador for several decades

Posted On 22 Sep 2023

Economy in 2024: stagnant, without the ITT and with a mining sector in decline

Posted On 20 Sep 2023

Bird flu detected in dead birds in Galapagos

Posted On 20 Sep 2023
Copyright © 2010 - 2019. All Rights Reserved. EcuadorTimes.net