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According to Renwick Rose of the West Indies Farmers’ Association (WINFA), ACP banana exporters remain ‘far from happy with the deal’. He described the deal as a ‘disastrous blow against not just the banana industry, but economic and social development in general’. He argued that ‘those who will suffer most as a result of today’s deal are banana farmers and their dependants in the Windward Islands’. This, however, needs to be seen in the context of ‘Dominica, St Vincent and St Lucia having lost more than 20,000 of their 25,000 small-scale banana producers’ since 1992.
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