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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read BOGOTA, April 14 (Reuters) - Colombia hopes to boost its banana exports by 10% this year, which would bring in $1 billion in income for the world’s fifth-largest producer of the fruit, an industry official said on Wednesday. Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the presence of the fusarium R4T banana fungus, Colombia exported 109 million 20-kilogram boxes of bananas last year, up 9.3% from 2019, boosting earnings by 6.5% to $916.2 million, said Emerson Aguirre, president of the Colombian Banana Growers Association. “Although the banana industry was blighted by these two pandemics, our figures were positive versus 2019,” Aguirre told Reuters, adding that the export target for 2021 was 120 million 20-kg boxes.

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