French fears grow for future of island industry

摘要

With price wars breaking out across Europe, growers in Martinique and Guadeloupe face an uncertain future as their returns drop lower and lower. AROUND 12,000 people on the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe derive their living directly fromthe banana industry, which has been thriving since the eighteenth century, and remains the most important agricultural activity on the two islands, as well as the largest private employer