There are more than 2,000 independent producers from Urabá who are part of the process.
About 4 million banana boxes of more than 2,000 small independent producers from Urabá are exported per year
Manuel Antonio Laborde Barriga, president of Uniban, indicated that they continue to make an effort so that the small producers of banana and bananas of Urabá, Antioqueño Keep receiving income through your products.
In addition, he said that this is an industry that has built a nation in a region of the country, stating that previously in the Urabá Antioqueño there were nothing before the arrival of This silver and banana industry
UNIBAN president explained that in this department’s sub -region also There was an absence of the statOy companies and small producers and citizens, have managed to create a social and business fabric that It has generated more than 1.5 billion boxes of 20 kilos of bananas and annually export about 4 million banan boxesor 2,440 small independent farmers.
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Manuel Antonio Laborde Barriga thanked the small producers for the alliance they have made and that has allowed the products that come from Chigorodó, Belén de Bajirá, Necoclí and Santa María la Antigua del Darién, arrive with their products of the best quality until LThe New York and Spain Markets.
“With the arrival of Puerto Antioquia, we will make us more efficient at the time of embarking on the products, we now have the process by barges through the river to the sea that takes longer and Now we are going to make faster to export through Puerto Antioquia “said the president of Uniban.
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Alberto Lizondro, director of quality and regulatory affairs in North America, said that the charism of Urabá’s people It makes bananas and bananas chosen by citizens in the United States.
He also said that American citizens are They find learning to use bananas more and more with different preparations Thanks to the trips they have made to Colombia, while the banana is a product known for many years.
Source: Integrated information system
