You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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 provided charts demonstrate data for

sales

for Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in two periods 1999 and 2004 in five distinct European nations.

Overall

, the

sales

of coffee in 2004 were the highest in the UK.

However

, in Switzerland, banana

sales

were dominating above other countries.

To begin

with, In the UK, the

sales

of coffee were 1.5

million

euros

.

This

number skyrocketed to 20

million

euros

. Switzerland's

sales

doubled from 3

million

to 6

million

euros

. Denmark and Sweden have undergone a noticeable increase by one-fifth

million

and became 2

million

and 1

million

respectively.

Finally

, Belgium increased slightly from 1 in 1999 to 1.7 in 2004.

In addition

to

this

, Switzerland's

sales

of bananas increased sharply from 15 to 47

million

euros

. There was a growth in banana

sales

by five times in the UK from 1

million

to 5.5

million

euros

.

Moreover

, banana

sales

in Belgium demonstrated a substantial jump to 4

million

euros

. Ultimately, Sweden and Denmark's

sales

are approximately halved and become the same.