SCARBOROUGH ... LA CAVENDISH EN SOUFFRE !
Même la banane philippine en souffre Le vendredi 11 mai, les autorités chinoises refusaient toujours l’entrée de quelques 1.500 containers de bananes ‘’Cavendish’’ en provenance de Mindanao. Chinese authorities on Friday continued to refuse entry to some 1,500 containers containing Cavendish banana because of an alleged finding that fruits earlier sent by Mindanao banana growers there showed signs of disease found only in coconuts. Stephen Antig, president of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association—which groups 18 companies in Mindanao—said that as of 3 p.m. Thursday, the bananas were being left to rot at the ports of Dalian, Shanghai, and Xingang as Chinese authorities insisted on the country’s new phytosanitary rules for bananas arriving from the Philippines. “Mindanao exporters feel we are being harassed,” Antig said, adding that it could be related to the standoff between the Philippines and China at Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. ...