Small- and medium-scale producers have concentrated their efforts on securing
acceptable banana prices, but their demands have not gone any further and there has
been no real questioning of the system of production and trade as such. Nevertheless,
some groups of producers have succeeded in creating their own marketing channels
outside the Dole, Chiquita, Noboa and Del Monte oligopoly. Organic producers have
been able to open up new markets, although their export volumes are not very high.