Uganda is the second largest producer of bananas after India with about 9 million tonnes produced annually. All this production creates tonnes of waste in form of stems and stocks. These are returned back to gardens to be used as fertilisers or mulching materials. But the stems and stocksContinue Reading
The president of the Canarian Executive, Fernando Clavijo, and the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister, Alexander Mora, who was on an official visit to the Canary archipelago, stated that the Canary Islands and Costa Rica have asked the European Union to work together to create the conditions so that thereContinue Reading
Bananas are rich in potassium that strengthens hair and minimizes breakage. The combination is very effective deep hair conditioner that can solve all your hair issues. Rich in potassium, bananas can strengthens your hair and minimizes breakage by restoring your hair’s natural elasticity, and facilitates repair of damaged hair. BananasContinue Reading
President Duterte said the government would raise before the World Trade Organization (WTO) its concerns over the subsidies extended by Latin American governments to their banana producers, which have allowed them to export bananas at a lower cost. While he vowed to also look into the request of major FilipinoContinue Reading
A field trial in Australia has shown that genetically modified banana trees can resist the deadly fungus that causes Panama disease, which has devastated banana crops in Asia, Africa, and Australia and is a major threat for banana growers in the Americas. The transgenic plants might reach some farmers inContinue Reading
Adverse weather has led to a 16 per cent fall in exports of organic bananas from Piura according to the Banana Technical Board. President Marcia Herrera Reto said shipments were on course to reach US$112m this year compared with US$152m in 2016. The fall is due to theContinue Reading
A multibillion-dollar banana industry at risk of a deadly disease could be saved by genetic modification that created a line of bananas resistant to Fusarium wilt tropical race 4, also known as Panama disease. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology genetically modified Cavendish bananas using a gene found in aContinue Reading
Guatemala-based One Banana launched the “One Banana a Day Makes a Difference” program in Peru. One Banana a Day Makes a Difference is a nutritional food security program in schools, according to a news release. The company also delivers bananas once a week to the schools in the program. Continue Reading
The first Banana Technical Table, led by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ruben Flores, established a twelve-point road map to benefit the sector. Representatives of the producers and exporters of the fruit participated in the meeting. They agreed to work on the following points: port feesContinue Reading
Edible wild banana species discovered, the second such on the island in two years Botanists in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been quietly going bananas. And it is not their fault, for the islands are a biodiversity hotspot that hosts seven different species of wild banana that weContinue Reading
Gail Simmons has a new cookbook: “Bringing it Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating.” The “Top Chef” judge previewed several recipes from the book ($30, Grand Central Publishing) at a dinner at Monteverde restaurant in Chicago last week. Among the standouts: a sultry banana-cardamom cake inspiredContinue Reading
Scientists in Australia have created golden-orange-fleshed bananas rich in pro-vitamin A that could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who die from a deficiency of this vitamin every year. The “biofortified” bananas were developed by taking genes from a species of banana from Papua New Guinea, which is highContinue Reading
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