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Growership arrangement seen as ‘a scheme to perpetuate poverty’

By Jay Coronado | November 4, 2001 - 12:00am

Banana farming, particularly of the export variety Cavendish bananas, has long been touted as one of the most lucrative agri-ventures one can enter into. For thousands of former plantation workers who became CARP...

Agriculture