Banana production in Belize accounted for 16 percent of total Belizean exports in 1999.[1]
Banana production was aided in the 1990s by privatization and market and production.[1] Banana production in Belize fluctuates, falling from 68,000 metric tons (67,000 long tons; 75,000 short tons) in 1994 to 45,000 (44,000; 50,000) in 1995 before rising back to 78,000 (77,000; 86,000) in 1999.[1]
Banana production in Belize began in the late nineteenth century when it was a British colony, when American and British investors established the first plantations.[2] Over the last 70 years, the pattern of banana production has gradually shifted away from large scale American and British owned company production to smaller-scale localised indigenous farming primarily targeted at the European market.[3]
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^Bott, Uwe (1993). "Bananas". In Merrill, Tim (ed.). Guyana and Belize: country studies (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-8444-0778-X. OCLC 28066032. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark (2003). Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3196-9. Retrieved August 30, 2008.
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