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Covers

I love covers. This are all covers of our new additions in the recent years. We did not have each month a new edition for some reasons, but quite often.

The Catalog in Numbers

This is the catalog of all known banana labels. It is an incomprehensibly huge thing. Let's collect some numbers with data from today, the 12th of March of 2020:

70-jarige verzamelde in 30 jaar tijd meer dan 21.000 Chiquita-stickers

Chiquita kwam onlangs in contact met de 70-jarige Becky Martz uit Florida, die al meer dan dertig jaar bananenstickers verzamelt.

Banana Varieties

The total number of cultivars of bananas and plantains has been estimated to be anything from around 300 to more than 1000. Names are highly confused, even within a single country.

Workers seek Covid 19 protection

As the Covid 19 pandemic has spread through Latin America, trade unions representing plantation workers have sought the implementation of measures to protect the health and incomes of workers, while fruit companies seek to maintain supplies to European supermarkets.

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