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Organic banana production in Peru

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 5p.

Author WBF Secretariat

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Category Brochure

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Almost all of Peru’s exported bananas are organic, accounting for around 3% of global organic banana production. In 2014 production occupied around 5 500 ha, close to 4% of the total banana producing area. This was concentrated in the northern regions of Piura, Tumbes and Lambayeque, and produced mostly by smallholders with farms of less than 3 hectares. Since the country started the conversion from conventional to organic in the late 1990s, more than 80% has become concentrated in the Chira Valley in Piura.

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