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The model of banana production used in the eastern Caribbean is different from the one used in Latin America. It differs in scale, landscape, land tenure systems, trading patterns, and the nature of the farmers themselves. These characteristics are a function of the relatively recent origin of the region’s banana industry, which developed after World War II and during the final stages of colonialism in the region. The eastern Caribbean banana industry does share two traits with Latin America’s industry, however, as both were introduced from abroad and both are dominated by foreign companies. After a brief discussion of the first Commonwealth Caribbean experience with bananas in Jamaica during the early twentieth century , this chapter focuses on the banana industries of the four small Windward Island nations of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (hereafter, St. Vincent). Jamaica offers a rare example of failure on the part of the United Fruit Company. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jamaica was the major source of the ’s bananas because of the Boston * F[WiWdj

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