UN OFFICIALS HELP UGANDANS FIGHT BANANA PLAGUE
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EDUCATING farmers in simple disease control techniques has rolled back a Uganda cooking banana plague, threatening to destroy this staple crop, upon which 14 million people depend. A joint UN Food & Agriculture Organisation-Uganda government project has advised 3,000 farmers on fighting banana bacterial wilt (BBW). It has now been contained in their target districts, with several participants doubling or tripling their production. BBW kills banana trees and makes their fruit inedible; no banana varieties are resistant and there is no ...
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