Research into improving banana varieties continues.
THE banana cultivation industry is plagued by various issues, ranging from the highly-destructive Fusarium wilt disease to lack of quality planting materials and the threat from floods and droughts. The practice of monocropping has also exposed the crop’s vulnerability to diseases, which emerge when plantation lands are not rotated.
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