Main Exported Products

Bananas

Bananas are second to coffee in economic importance. Concentrated on the southern Caribbean coast around the Golf of Uraba, production took place on both large plantations for export and small plots for domestic consumption. Banana production grew at relatively high rates in the early 1970s, only to slow later because of the reduced competitiveness of Colombian banana prices. Production again arouse in the middle of the 1990's as domestic prices moved toward lower international levels.