Both Chiquita and Del Monte are participating in the auction of 3,100 acres that were part of the former grounds of the now defunt Coosemupar
Both companies are in talks with the Government and former employees of Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples de Puerto Armuelles. A report by Ana Giselle Rosas de Vallarino, executive director of the Panamanian Autonomous Cooperative (IPACOOP) has revealed that with the money from the auction, the government will have to pay $17 million as payment of the worker-employer fee and other debts to suppliers .
Climate problems, lack of market and the elimination of the 'Certificado de Fomento de Agroexportaciones ' (Certificate for Development of Agroexports) have caused production to fall by 50%.
"Pineapple production has declined, even though it generates a larger amount of labor than grain production," said Ricardo Garcia, spokesman for producers of pineapple and cucurbits in Chiriqui, the Central Provinces and La Chorrera.
Due to lack of product, or because of technical or commercial deficiencies, Honduran banana farmers and are not ready to take advantage of the benefits granted them by the trade agreement with Europe.
The livestock sector feels it is at a disadvantage in competing for and meeting demand. According to Gilberto Moreno, director of the Association of Ranchers and Farmers from Sula (Agas) the beef cattle segment, "at the moment is not exporting to Europe because the paperwork is not ready."
Before the end of April, the Philippines will be sending its first shipment of three thousand tons of Cavendish bananas to the United States.
From an article by the Costa Rican Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER):
The Philippine government said on Monday that the first shipment of 3,000 tons of Cavendish bananas bound for the United States will finally be sent before the end of April.
The company has reached an agreement with the 1,700 former workers who were awarded individual plots in the area.
"The agreement was reached yesterday at a meeting in Finca Blanco, which was attended by over 800 members of the defunct Cooperative 'Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples de Puerto Armuelles', and transnational manager in Bocas del Toro, Julio Vargas, among others ", reported Prensa.com.
The in vitro plants produce almost twice the amounts of fruit per head, being ready to harvest two months earlier than regular plants.
These plantains produced in the biotechnology laboratory of the International School of Agriculture and Livestock of Rivas (EIAG) were grown in order to assertain the benefits of of plantains produced in a laboratory.
The U.S. government has given sanitation clearances which allows the importation of bananas and mangoes from the Philippines.
A statement from the Costa Rican Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER) reads:
Greater entry of Philippino bananas and mangoes allowed to the U.S.
Clarito Barron, director of the Office of Philippino Agribusiness, stated that via the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), they have been formally informed about the import regulations by which Philippine Cavendish bananas can be sent over in the first quarter.
Guatemala and Nicaragua offer better incentives to banana producers than Honduras.
An article in Prensalibre.com reports that the president of the Honduran Banana Unions Coordinator, German Zepeda, said: "The tax benefits offered by Nicaragua, for example, have attracted not only the textile industry, but also transnational agricultural producers. '
Climatic factors have affected production, with 103 million boxes exported in 2012, 2% less than in the previous year when 106 million were exported.
Expectations are better for 2013, as the harvest is expected to rebound to the export levels of 2011.
Elfinancierocr.com reports that "According to a commercial Alert from the Foreign Trade Promotion Office (Procomer), the global supply of bananas will shrink in 2013, after a fall in the production of fruit from Ecuador and The Philippines, the leading providers of the product worldwide, which could generate a positive scenario for the country.
While passing Trade Agreement with Central America, the EP approved two clauses to protect European banana production in light of reduced tariff for imports from Central America, Peru and Colombia.
These safeguards measures will allow the EU Commission to suspend preferential tariffs for up to three months should banana imports reach certain levels.
The Costa Rican Trade Promotion Office has announced opportunities in the Chilean market.
A statement from the Costa Rican Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER):
There is an opportunity to supply organic bananas and pineapples to a Chilean supermarket chain, for a period of one year with a possible extension of the contract.
For more details contact Alexander Roman, promoter of agriculture, whose email address is aroman@procomer.com
The eleven Latin American countries involved signed the agreement ending twenty years of banana trade disputes with the European countries.
The so-called "banana war" between the European Union (EU) and several Latin American countries-including six Central American countries- officially came to an end on Thursday, with the signing of a trade agreement promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Given the reduced orders from the old continent, the only banana plantation located in the southern region, Coopetrabasur, has closed one of its farms.
In place of the banana plantation, in an area measuring 115 hectares, the cooperative has planted oil palms, in view of the good international prices for this product.
Rónald Cardenas, general manager of the Cooperative for Southern Banana Workers (Coopetrabasur), told Nacion.com, "...
In 2011, Panama shipped abroad 369,286 tons of banana worth $88.14 million, at an average price of $238 per ton.
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Foreign sales of Honduran bananas during the first two months of 2012 exceeded by $25 million sales in the first two months of last year.
A 'Trade Report' by the Central Bank of Honduras said that banana exports brought in revenues of $76.2 million in the first two months of 2012, surpassing the $52 million in the same period last year.
Therefore, bananas remains the second largest generator of foreign exchange, just behind coffee, which meant income of $398 million in the period.
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