Banana Support Programme

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][3]

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References

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

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