The EU recognizes the banana of Costa Rica

The European Union (EU) recognized geographical indication of bananas from Costa Rica, something the Costa Rican producers celebrated yesterday and consider as a tool to improve competitiveness.

This will help “to achieve a consumer´s acknowledgement to social and environmental effort made by the national banana industry,” the general manager of the National Banana Corporation (Corbana), Jorge Sauma, said.

Costa Rica is the only exporter of bananas, although Ecuador is the main, that counts on geographical indication and is one of the main producers of bananas in the world with sales in 2014 of $ 903 million, of which $ 422 million correspond to the EU.

Source: http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=8336284&idcat=38229&tipo=2