11.   Chiquita and the U.S. government charge the agreement was designed to benefit European shipping and marketing companies, not the banana growers.

12.   Desperation is setting in among banana growers in Honduras following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch.

13.   Denzil Douglas decried a recent World Trade Organization ruling dismantling special treatment for Caribbean banana growers on the European Market.

14.   Dole Food Co., a U.S. company, moved in about a year ago and began signing up private banana growers in the Shabelle Valley south of Mogadishu.

15.   Eastern Caribbean banana growers have agreed on a plan to streamline exporting and production.

16.   In St. Vincent, authorities reported minimal property damage, but banana growers are wary about the quantity of the crop that was lost to the winds.

17.   Industry officials say the sale of Geest to the Ecuadorians, could trigger an industry war between Central American and Caribbean banana growers.

18.   The banana growers say their exports to the EU have dropped by half in the past two years, and want the import regime scrapped.

19.   The European Union should appeal a recent ruling banning it from favoring banana growers in former colonies, a Caribbean trade official said Monday.

20.   The European Union has appealed an international ruling barring it from favoring banana growers in its former colonies.