Colombia is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of bananas, producing 100.4 million 20-kg boxes of the fruit in 2018. This was the country’s highest output in at least a decade, the banana growers’ association said on Tuesday.
Production rose 2.52 percent from 2017’s output, because of tree replanting and an increased crop area. The increase moved Colombia up in the global ranking of banana exporters to fourth from fifth, behind Ecuador, Costa Rica and Guatemala, the association said.
According to an article on reuters.com, banana exports were worth $859 million last year, up 1 percent from 2017. Almost 82% percent of Colombia’s banana exports go to the European Union, while 13% go to the United States.
