Resources Tagged: Banana

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  1. Banana and Maize Projects Rwanda

    2014-10-20
    Banana Maize East Africa

  2. Musa acuminata - Banana

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Flower stalk, Stem The banana false stems usually have black marks on them. The canal of the leaf stalk is like an open drain. There are dry flapswhere the leaf stalk joins the false stem. The leaves are paddle shaped. These are diploid bananas. They can be seeded...
    Plant Information FPI Edible Flowers Fruits Musa acuminata Banana

  3. An Evaluation of Banana Macropropogation Technique for Producing Pig Fodder in Northern Thailand

    Sustainable Agriculture Research Elizabeth Langford, Patrick J Trail, Abram J Bicksler, Rick Burnette Abstract Smallholder farmers raising pigs in northern Thailand rely heavily on banana stalks as a fermented feed source, but struggle to reproduce banana plants fast enough to keep up with...
    Banana Macropropagation Benzyl Aminopurine Apical dominance Thailand

  4. Musa x paradisiaca - Banana

    Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable, Stalk, Corm, Root, Bud These are the main group of cultivated bananas. They can be classed into diploid, triploid and tetraploid kinds with variousamounts of the A or B parents. They grow 2-9 m high. They are large non woody herbs with broad long leaves....
    Roots Vegetables Edible Flowers Plant Information FPI Fruits Musa x paradisiaca Plantains Banana

  5. Making Banana Flour - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Across the world, people eat bananas and plantains. While some prepare banana as part of their main meal, many just eat it as a fruit. Once harvested, bananas don’t keep long and are easily damaged during handling and storage. But it is possible to turn your...
    Post Harvest Fruit-Preservation Flour AccessAgriculture Banana

  6. Controlling Banana Weevils - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Learn how to spot banana weevils, how to keep them out of new banana fields and how to trap them. Available languages Bambara Bangla Chichewa / Nyanja English Fon French Hindi Kikuyu Kinyarwanda / Kirundi Kiswahili Luganda Spanish Tamil Tumbuka Urdu
    Biological Control Pest Control Integrated Pest Ma... Weevils AccessAgriculture Banana

  7. Using Banana Stems to Grow Vegetables

    But one of the most overlooked parts of the plant is its stem that often goes to waste after the culmination of production. While in many parts of India, the tender core of the stem is a part of local cuisines, the utilisation of the banana stem has found little scope in India, which is strange...
    Planting Media Banana Stem Banana

  8. The Potential of Banana Stem as a Planting Media

    Abstract, Journal of Soil Science and Agroclimatology, 2017 Banana stem water content is 90%. Therefore, it is potential as an alternative for planting media in limited agriculture lands due to their function changes. The aim of the research is to obtain information on cultivation technology and...
    Banana Stem Planting Media Banana

  9. Disease Resistant Banana and Cooking Banana Hybrids Developed

    The five hybrids illustrated in this booklet have all been successfully cultivated in at least one country. 8 pages, photos
    Disease resistant ... Banana

  10. Cryopreservation of Musa Germplasm

    2009-01-01 Bananas and plantains (Musa species) are important food staples in the tropics and subtropics.Over 400 million people throughout the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics are dependent on these crops, as both a staple food and an important commodity for marketing locally and...
    Musa Germplasm Cryopreservation Banana