date:Oct 08, 2016
e Secretary Emmanuel Piol said over the phone.
The Philippines remains the second largest producer of bananas worldwide, next to Ecuador, and it continues to supply 95 percent of the total banana demand for the Asian market.
Last year, the Philippines exported 448,000 metric tons of bananas to China valued at $157.5 million.
China had destroyed 35 tons of bananas from the Philippines, valued at $33,000 last March, and eventually suspended 27 exporters.
Bananas were destroyed in Shenzen, a ma