The main production centers are concentrated in the area south of Lake Maracaibo such as Zulia, Trujillo, Merida and Tachira, which is particularly important due to the existing agroecological conditions that makes this region contributes about 70% of national production, other producing areas are located in the States, Yaracuy, Miranda, Barinas, in the highlands of Apure, Monagas and Delta Amacuro although it is also possible to find it in other states on a smaller scale.
In Venezuela, one of the most important banana-producing areas is the area south of Lake Maracaibo, where this crop is important from an economic and food point of view and is a profitable activity for the producing states. In the specific case of the area south of Lake Maracaibo, the jurisdictions of the municipalities of Colón, Francisco Javier Pulgar and Sucre stand out.
In these municipalities is where the largest extensions of productive land for the crop are concentrated since their lands are of type (A) and the properties are extremely fertile and the geographical conditions are favorable thanks to the fluvial tributaries such as the Chama and Mucujepe rivers, among others that supply the lake and give the special geological properties to the lands.
The municipality Francisco Javier Pulgar is the first producer of bananas of all Venezuela since it produces most of the production besides that it is a banana of great quality and proportional flavor, in the last years the production of the item has been affected by the economic-financial conditions and of natural phenomena since the sector has been affected in times of precipitations by the floods.
These floods are caused through the rivers of the area that has occurred to date, in addition to the daily hyperinflation in the economic aspect, by the national and international political conditions, the fall of the production of larger scale to smaller scale since some of the largest productive extensions were expropriated and fractioned to small producers where some if they placed them to produce but there are other cases that did not.