Bananas are the leading crop, with Tenerife being the leading producer of the Canary Islands.

Annual production has stabilised around 150,000 metric tonnes in recent years, after peaking at 200,000 tonnes in 1986. Just over 90% of the crop goes to the Spanish domestic market. Banana plantations cover 4,200 Has. of land.

The next most important crop is tomatoes, followed by potatoes, flowers and ornamental plants and vines.

BANANA (Tenerife)
1995 = 153.619 tonnes (371.208 tonnes in Canaries as a whole)
1996 = 151.448 tonnes (348.087 tonnes in Canaries as a whole)
Agricultural value (1995) = 12.500 Millones pts. (including subsidies for loss of income).