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The [[European Union]]'s '''Banana Support Programme''' was a financial support program for the Jamaican [[Banana production in the Caribbean|banana industry]] that ran between 1999 and 2013.<ref name=EU_lauded>{{cite web|url=http://jis.gov.jm/eu-lauded-for-support-to-banana-industry/|title=EU Lauded for Support to Banana Industry|author=Alphea Saunders|date=30 October 2013|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref><ref name=Observer>{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Jamaica-grateful-for-EU-banana-support|title=Jamaica grateful for EU banana support|work=Jamaica Observer|date=2 August 2011|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref> Since 1999, the European Union (EU) has provided more than €40 million in [[aid]] to the industry. The programme had two components, the Rural Diversification Programme (RDP) and the Banana Improvement Programme (BIP).<ref name=Grant>{{cite web|author=Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture|publisher=European Commission: External cooperation programmes|year=2007|accessdate=20 August 2008|title=Grant for Social and Economic Infrastructure in the Traditional Banana Growing Communities of Jamaica|url=http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/tender/data/d53/AOF86753.doc|format=doc}}</ref> The former funded projects for encouraging [[Diversification (marketing strategy)|diversification]] of the [[rural economics|rural economy]] into other fields including bee farming and agro-tourism as well as improvement of rural infrastructure, whereas the latter supported development in the banana industry itself.<ref name=fiche>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/delegations/jamaica/projects/list_of_projects/18440_en.htm|title=Project fiche – JAMAICA – European Banana Support Programme|publisher=Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands|accessdate=1 September 2014}}</ref><ref name=Grant />

==See also==
*[[Banana Sector Retraining Project]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://ec.europa.eu/delegations/jamaica/projects/list_of_projects/18440_en.htm European Banana Support Programme] (EU Delegation to Jamaica)

[[Category:Agriculture in Jamaica]]
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