The Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez has said that the government’s investment in the Cruz de Manzanillo Project is strengthening the country’s status as the biggest exporter of organic bananas in the country in the world. He said that the project will plant another 25,000 tareas (1 tarea = 629 square meters) of organic bananas to be sold to export markets. He said that the project promises to be one of the success stories of the government’s revitalized social agrarian policies and that the 2,500 new quality jobs generated will dynamize the northwest part area of the country.
He reminded us that last year the export organic banana market was valued at more than US$140 million.