Despite world production reaching approximately 20 million tonnes, international trade remains extremely limited, involving just 5 % of production, i.e. probably 750 000 t. Self-consumption remains the cornerstone of the plantain market: the Central and West African production areas, plus those in Latin America, are also the main consumption zones. Besides the local and regional markets in these zones, the United States and the EU-28 (the former well ahead of the latter) are driving international trade, mainly meeting the demand from populations of Latin American or African ethnic origin .
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