Re-cap of Banana Day international event On April 21, the Ecuadorian Banana Cluster celebrated Banana Day with a high-level international event on the sector's industry and its future. It was attended by speakers such as MEPs Juan Ignacio Zoido and Mazaly Aguilar; the ambassador of the European Union in Ecuador Charles-Michel Geurt; representatives of the European Commission such as Koen van Dyck from DG SANTE; Maija Laurila from DG JUST; Luis Carazo from DG AGRI; professor, PhD and researcher at Wageningen University Gert Kema; PhD and professor emeritus at the KU Leuven Rony Swennen, currently researcher at IITA; and Carolina Dawson from CIRAD.