The conflict has put the brakes on production in El Triunfo, close to Guayaquil, the site of Ecuador's main port.
"One in every five bananas produced in Ecuador goes to Ukraine and Russia," said Franklin Torres, president of Ecuador's FENABE banana producers federation. "This war really affected us in that sense." The conflict has put the brakes on production in El Triunfo, close to Guayaquil, the site of Ecuador's main port.
"Truly it's an insult to any type of business. What we're receiving is shameful and it's not even worth picking them."Seeing Ecuador's surplus of bananas, other markets "have started reducing their price offers," said Richard Salazar, president of the ACORBANEC association for banana commercialization and export.
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