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102 Million Boxes of Bananas
Costa Rican banana exports will
increase by 13.5 million
18.14-kilo (40-lb.) boxes this
year.
Sources at the National Banana
Grower Association (CORBANA in
Spanish) asserted that a marked
recovery in production accounts
for this increase.
Between 1998 and 2005, Costa
Rican growers had staggered
under marketing and weather
problems which resulted in a
marked drop in production.
Now, the recovery will take the
overall number of exported boxes
to 102.1 million –from 88.6
million in the preceding period–
and it will mean an additional
is$77 million in the overall
sales, which were at $451
million as of last September and
are expected to reach some $580
million by the end of the year,
barring a natural disaster or a
thing of that type that would
stem the boost.
Before the arrival of technology
sales by Intel, bananas had been
the nation’s leading export;
then they lost even the second
spot, surpassed by textiles,
which are again currently in a
third position.
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