01204nam a2200145 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000270006024500970008726002000018452006200038465000090100465300200101370000250103319068252013-11-01       2011    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aREINHARDT, D. H. R. C.  aOpening keynotebpanorama of the banana industry in Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.  aIn: PROMUSA SYMPOSIUM, 2011, Salvador. Bananas and plantains: toward sustainable global production and improved uses: abstracts. [Montepellier.]: [Bioversity International, 2011. 181 p. 21.c2011  aNatural product of excellent nutritional value and consumed in volume almost equivalent to some important staple crops, banana is the most important fruit in the world, and so it is in Latin America, where there are large producers such as Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, and some exporters of excellence such as Ecuador and Costa Rica. The banana industry in Latin America and the Caribbean islands is very diverse, going from a wide range of small growers mostly focused towards local and regional domestic markets, up to large plantations run by big companies with a few of them dominating the international market.  aMusa  aBanana Industry1 aSEREJO, J. A. dos S.