The WTO also said that the EU should abandon the policy. This meant that the EU could only purchase from one source - the American MNC's in Latin America, whilst the Caribbean have to struggle, until the introduction of Fair-trade. What have been the economic and social consequences of this dispute on Caribbean Farmers? Because of the WTO's decision stating that the EU should only purchase bananas from MNC's in Latin America, Caribbean farmers have lost massive amounts of money from not selling bananas to the UK because of the special relationship they had. Before the Banana wars, the Caribbean Windward islands used to export 76,000 tonnes of banana's a year around the world, it was a major income for the island; but now the EU cannot purchase bananas from the Caribbean, the number of the crop being exported has halved. Because of the banana industry falling in the Caribbean, many farmers are getting in debt, and losing their land and their businesses, causing mass unemployment on the already incredibly poor islands. Some of the banana farmers have begun to use a different crop to make money; Marijuana, an illegal substance, which as some sources say, 30% of farmers on the Windward Islands are growing.