Banana Crisis Deepens | Se agrava la crisis bananera

By Eju.tv: Banana Grower Reports Bs 500 Daily Fine for Not Attending Blockades and Reports Million-Dollar Losses in Chapare Road restrictions have already forced the disposal of more than 100,000 banana bunches, equivalent to about 80 truckloads, due to the inability to ship them to their main export market, Argentina. While the social conflict and…

Bolivian banana is better!

Laura Manzaneda, Los Tiempos: Argentina prefers Bolivian bananas for their sweetness and sales grow despite Covid Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis in 2020, the export of bananas was 130 thousand tons, a volume higher than the 100 thousand tons exported in 2019, reported the representative of the producers, Agustín Conde. The increase…

Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50%

From La Prensa via Freshplaza: Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50% Banana export prices fell from 2.40 to 1.30 dollars per box in the last six months, stated the president of the Community Organization of Banana Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba, Agustin Conde. According to Conde, the decrease in the international price of…

What happens with our LEGAL Chapare banana’s exports???!!

El Deber’s editorial is striking!! Bolivia is about to lose its most important LEGAL, sustainable export from Chapare…!!?? The future of Chapare The Argentine Government has just closed its borders to the entry of bananas produced in Bolivia, mainly from the Chapare, creating a political, economic and diplomatic problem that the Government of the MAS…