The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. *Fairtrade: a category of products for which farmers from developing countries have been paid an officially agreed fair price. You should write at least 150 words.

The tables compare Fairtrade-labelled

coffee

and

bananas

sales

(in millions of

Euros

) across five different

countries

in Europe for the years 1999 and 2004.

Overall

,

sales

data for both

coffee

and

bananas

indicates a growth in almost all the nations.

Sales

of

coffee

increased most and least in the

UK

and Denmark, respectively,

whereas

the rate of change in Fairtrade banana

sales

was the highest in Denmark during

this

time. The first table shows the highest number of

coffee

sales

in Switzerland, which was exactly 3

million

Euros

in 1999. The

sales

in the

UK

were half of that, and the lowest

sales

were recorded in Sweden, with less than 1

million

Euros

. After five years, the

coffee

sales

in these five

countries

went up with a remarkable improvement in the

UK

. The

sales

rose significantly to 20

million

Euros

in 2004 which was almost double the total

sales

in the remaining four

countries

. The second table displays the

sales

of

bananas

. In general, Switzerland had the highest income from

bananas

in both 1994 and 2014.

Additionally

, banana

sales

climbed in three

countries

- the

UK

, Switzerland, and Denmark - between the two years.

Conversely

, the

sales

of

bananas

in Sweden and Belgium declined in 2014 to around 1

million

Euros

over the period.