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The Minister of Agriculture, Pedro Álava and seven representatives of the country’s banana sector signed an act last Wednesday, April 13, 2022, listing 8 reforms that they commit to execute for the well-being of the industry. Although the agreement includes some requests...

For the fourth consecutive day, banana producers have closed roads in the province of El Oro, one of the main producers of the fruit along with Guayas and Los Ríos. The voices of protest and claim for the crisis that the sector is going through due to the fruit that has stopped...

The banana industry continues adding losses, due to the commercial complications that have been generated as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, both countries, before the war, absorbed up to 25% of the exported fruit. According to an update of figures from the...

The Government opened this Wednesday, April 13, 2022, the valve of well A5 -on the platform of the Ishpingo field- and from which a production of 3,600 barrels of oil per day is expected. The opening of this first well was in charge of the President of the Republic, Guillermo...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock made official the arrival of banana plants of the Cavendish somaclonal variety, called Formosana GCTCV-218 , a species that is tolerant to Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (Foc R4T), a fungus that has not yet been detected in Ecuador. This...

The Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor) inaugurated this Tuesday the third edition of the Ecuador Food Fair, which was born in 2020 as a response from the sector to maintain contact with its international markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which will be...

This Monday, April 11, several roads in the main banana provinces of the country: Guayas, Los Ríos and El Oro , were blocked by producers who left their farms to protest the current situation of the commercialization of the fruit due to the impact of the war between Russia and...

Until this Thursday, April 7, 2022, ten Ecuadorian companies are participating in Fruit Logística, a fair that takes place in Berlin (Germany) and is one of the most emblematic for learning about the global supply of fresh fruit and vegetables. In hall 23, of the fairgrounds, is...

Ecuador will receive this Thursday, April 7, 4,600 banana plants called Formosana GCTCV-218, a Cavendish-type variety, tolerant to Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (Foc R4T), the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Pedro Álava, reported on Wednesday. The two packages with the plants...

The companies Gisis, Limbomar, Produmar, Project1835 and Envapress signed on Wednesday -April 6- investment contracts with the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries for more than $370 million. “We have just signed five investment contracts for more than...