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The
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
's Banana Support Programme was a financial support program for the Jamaican
banana industry The banana industry is an important part of the global industrial agrobusiness. About 15% of the global banana production goes to export and international trade for consumption in Western countries. They are grown on banana plantations primarily ...
that ran between 1999 and 2013. Since 1999, the European Union (EU) has provided more than €40 million in
aid In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another. Ai ...
to the industry. The programme had two components, the Rural Diversification Programme (RDP) and the Banana Improvement Programme (BIP). The former funded projects for encouraging
diversification Diversification may refer to: Biology and agriculture * Genetic divergence, emergence of subpopulations that have accumulated independent genetic changes * Agricultural diversification involves the re-allocation of some of a farm's resources to n ...
of the
rural economy Rural economics is the study of rural economies. Rural economies include both agricultural and non-agricultural industries, so rural economics has broader concerns than agricultural economics which focus more on food systems. Rural developmen ...
into other fields including bee farming and agro-tourism as well as improvement of rural infrastructure, whereas the latter supported development in the banana industry itself.


See also

* Banana Sector Retraining Project


References


External links


European Banana Support Programme
(EU Delegation to Jamaica) Agriculture in Jamaica Banana production European Union and agriculture {{EU-stub