Banana Support Programme Explained

The European Union's Banana Support Programme was a financial support program for the Jamaican banana industry that ran between 1999 and 2013.[1] [2] Since 1999, the European Union (EU) has provided more than €40 million in aid to the industry. The programme had two components, the Rural Diversification Programme (RDP) and the Banana Improvement Programme (BIP).[3] The former funded projects for encouraging diversification of the rural economy 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.[4]

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  1. Web site: EU Lauded for Support to Banana Industry. Alphea Saunders. 30 October 2013. 1 September 2014.
  2. Web site: Jamaica grateful for EU banana support. Jamaica Observer. 2 August 2011. 1 September 2014.
  3. Web site: Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture. European Commission: External cooperation programmes. 2007. 20 August 2008. Grant for Social and Economic Infrastructure in the Traditional Banana Growing Communities of Jamaica. doc.
  4. Web site: Project fiche – JAMAICA – European Banana Support Programme. Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands. 1 September 2014.

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