ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Chiquita Brands International, United Fruit Company, Office Of The United States Trade Representative
12 Nov 2012
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Takes a short period time to grow 8-9 months, after natural disaster it doesn"t take long before they grow back. They start to become a tropical fruit commodity; the desire for bananas had to be cultivated/developed. Case study- dominica (1930s then on to green gold ) Through the 1930s-70s british colonial government was offering incentives to. Lome agreement were agreements between government guaranteeing the acp (african, They were popular because bananas were a guarantee profit and a guaranteed price. Through time the consumer side started demanding the bananas cut into hands (certain type of cut) People in the uk didn"t buy bananas that didn"t have dark spots because it was fungus therefore dominican farmers had to spend money to prevent the bananas from getting freckles. This production became more labour intensive as money had to be borrowed, this new technique was time consuming to prevent from getting dark spots on their product.
