DJI_0233_Bataan, Matina County, Limon Province, Costa Rica, 2024. A laborer on a bicycle crosses the road that leads to one of the many banana plantations in the Matina County. According to the SEPSA statistical bulletin (Secretaría Ejecutiva de Planificación
Sectorial Agropecuaria -2022) there are over 83,000 hectares of land in Costa Rica cultivated with bananas and pineapples. The equivalent of approximately 118,570 football fields.