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Re-cap of Banana Day international event
On April 21, the Ecuadorian Banana Cluster celebrated Banana Day with a high-level international event on the sector s industry and its future. It was attended by speakers such as MEPs Juan Ignacio Zoido and Mazaly Aguilar; the ambassador of the European Union in Ecuador Charles-Michel Geurt; representatives of the European Commission such as Koen van Dyck from DG SANTE; Maija Laurila from DG JUST; Luis Carazo from DG AGRI; professor, PhD and researcher at Wageningen University Gert Kema; PhD and professor emeritus at the KU Leuven Rony Swennen, currently researcher at IITA; and Carolina Dawson from CIRAD.
Online event for the banana industry
International Banana Day will take place on April 21st. To commemorate this occasion, the Ecuadorian Banana Cluster is organizing Banana Day 2021 , an online event about the banana industry and its future, analyzing the main challenges and opportunities in this industry.
The event, When the Farm to Fork goes Bananas , will be divided into three panels and feature speakers from European institutions, academics and scientists.
The April 21st event examines the banana industry and its future and will examine the main challenges and opportunities in this industry.
Panel 1: Different regions, different needs: for an agriculture adapted to local realities