Bananas and Food Security - Bioversity International

Amérique Latine - Caraïbes / Latin America - Caribbean : C. Oliveira de Almeida et al.
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banana prices at grower level in the state of Santa Catarina over the past ten years
(1985-1994) for the cultivars Nanica and Nanicão showed the following pattern:
“harvesting occurs during the summer months. Prices begin to fall in November, remain
low during summer, increasing again from April. An exception to that situation is the
price of the banana Prata, which fetches higher prices than normal during January,
February and March in spite of fairly good supply”. The explanation for this is the
increased number of tourists and their preference for the “Prata” as fresh fruit (Souza et
al. 1995).
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Brazil exports bananas mainly to Argentina and Uruguay. The bananas are exported as
bunches to Uruguay and as hands to Argentina. Recently the Brazilian Government
prohibited banana export as bunches. As already mentioned, the states of São Paulo and
Santa Catarina are the most important banana exporting states in Brazil, and they
compete for the international market (especially Argentina and Uruguay). Although
being the Brazilian states that export most bananas, the largest proportion of the banana
production of São Paulo and Santa Catarina is sold in the domestic market. Studies by
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Figure 4. Seasonal analysis of banana prices for the cultivar Prata in the CEASAs of Salvador,
Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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