Title: Banana industry - Wikipedia
Headings: Banana industry
Banana industry
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Ecological impact
Cash crop
Spread of plant disease
Companies
Production and export
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Content: In spite of the multitude of banana species across the world, even only taking into account the cultivated ones, industrial production is dominated by the Cavendish banana . Further information: List of banana cultivars
Spread of plant disease
Tropical Race 4 is thought to be distributed globally by soil-contaminated equipment from the multinational plantation owners. See also: List of banana and plantain diseases
Companies
In 2013, five multinational fruit companies alone controlled 44% of the international banana trade: Company
Country
Market share in 2013 [%]
Chiquita
U.S.
13
Fyffes
Ireland
6
Dole Food Company
U.S.
11
Fresh Del Monte Produce
U.S.
12
Noboa
Ecuador
2
The market share of the above players decreased from 70% in 2002 to about 44% in 2013. This decline in market power has been attributed to a couple of reasons. In the past, multinational companies owned a large number of plantations in Central and South America and other banana-producing regions. Since the 1980s they have divested a large share of their own production, replacing it with greater purchases from independent producers. For example, Chiquita has decreased the number of its plantations in Central America.