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 ...

Banana weevils and nematodes also are common ... base of the plantlet to prevent water loss through evaporation. Tissue culture plantlets are planted in pits that are 3 feet wide and 3 feet ...

“Banana farmers are faced with devastating pests and diseases that affect their crop, the alternative option is disease-free plantlets developed through tissue culture. Tissue culture is a ...

BMFC, a premier commercial plant tissue culture centre in the government ... We produced 22 varieties of banana last year. The plantlets are purchased by Krishi Bhavans across the state, farms ...

According to NRCB director S Uma, the tissue culture plantlets of the new varieties will be available from next year onwards. Uma was addressing a banana field day cum seminar on the recent ...

Of the estimated 300,000 banana farmers in Kenya, Paul Njiru from Embu stands out for using technology to boost his harvest and earnings. Mr Njiru, a pastor aged 33, imports different varieties of ...

Tissue culture technology, which is currently used widely in plants such as orchid and banana, could soon be used for growing tea plantlets. The Tocklai Tea Research Institute claims to have ...

KUTSAGA Research Station produced more than 3,8 million disease-free plantlets between 2021 and 2024 through its state-of-the-art tissue culture laboratory, in a major boost to Zimbabwe’s drive ...