European bananas are mostly grown on the Canary Islands (Spain), where production
increased by 24 000 tonnes in 2012, and Guadeloupe and Martinique (France), where
the total production increased by 9 000 tonnes. Minor quantities are also produced
in Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. Bananas grown within the EU accounted for about
12.6 percent of total EU consumption in 2012. At the same time, the share of mostfavoured-
nation (MFN) bananas consumed in the EU was 68.3 percent, while
consumption of bananas imported from the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of
States (ACP) accounted for 19.1 percent3.