the countries that produce the most bananas include india, brazil, china, ecuador and the philippines. the top five countries that exported bananas were ecuador, costa rica, the philippines, colombia and guatemala. the united states, the european union and japan buy the most bananas. bananas are among the most valuable agricultural export products; they provided about sixty percent of export earnings of saint lucia and about twelve percent of the gross domestic product of the country, between 1994 and 1996.