Banana production in the Caribbean Banana production in the Caribbean Banana production in the Caribbean is widespread. Bananas are cultivated by both small farmers and large land holders. The plant is perennial and is planted either in pure stands or in mixed cultivation, such as in Jamaica. Countries where bananas are a main export crop are Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname and Colombia. Mechanical tilling of the land is undertaken on gentle slopes. On flat land, harrowing is carried out to renew the soil fertility. The
Pilosans of the Caribbean Rico, the easternmost of the Greater Antilles; another species is known from much older, Oligocene, sediments. Grenada is the southernmost island of the main Lesser Antillean island arc. Trinidad is a large island off northeastern Venezuela. It hosts two species of anteaters that are also found on mainland South America. Curaçao is a Dutch island off northwestern Venezuela. Escudo de Veraguas is an island off northern Panama. Despite its small size, it supports two mammal species found nowhere else: the bat "Artibeus incomitatus" and the only extant Caribbean sloth. Pilosans of the Caribbean The mammalian order Pilosa, which includes the