Mr Kanyingi said since the farmers started growing tissue culture bananas "we have been selling our products to the Kenya Agriculture Commodity Exchange but now the organisation has stopped buying ...

For years, Mukurwe-ini farmers in Central Kenya have ... are now turning to banana farming. Lured by a ready market and better returns, many have shifted to farming tissue culture bananas which ...

To sum it up, Kenya’s relatively stable economy and all year round growing season holds great potential for the local and export markets. Tissue-culture bananas can help increase production of ...

Of the estimated 300,000 banana farmers in Kenya, Paul Njiru from Embu stands ... Mr Njiru, a pastor aged 33, imports different varieties of tissue culture (TC) bananas from Israel laboratories ...

Kenya’s average potato ... distribution and large-scale planting. Tissue culture technology is applied in the production of disease-free and high-yielding fruits and vegetables in East Africa, ...

a former official with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, indigenous banana are much superior to tissue culture in her farm. Mbiro, from Gicheche village, harvests bananas from her one-acre ...

In Uganda and Kenya where the study was undertaken ... Studies done in Uganda indicate that by using tissue culture banana planting materials, the gross gain from bananas increase to sh3.5m ...

“To amplify the economic viability of this project, so far, the area under banana production in Kenya stands at 96,000 hectares as opposed to 43,000 hectares in 1996,” he said. “Tissue ...

Tissue culture is easily adopted by farmers for crops like banana which is produced massively ... We are handling orders from Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Ethiopia,” he says.

As banana farmers are faced with devastating pests and diseases that affect their crop, the alternative option is disease-free plantlets developed through tissue culture. A number of privately run ...