A new management board to oversee the  TR4 Program in Queensland until 2023 met for the first time in April 2020, heralding the start of a unique government-industry partnership to help protect the future of Australia’s $580 million banana industry. [...]

The paper, published in the Frontiers in Plant Science Journal by John Komen and five other scientists working in Africa, noted that CRISPR-Cas9 is already being used to improve major staple foods in Africa, such as wheat, cassava and banana, [...]

Australia: confirman hallazgo de R4T en una cuarta granja de banano de Tully

While world headlines are fixed on the coronavirus COVID-19, the banana industry is concerned, as well, about stopping the spread of another potential scourge: Fusarium Wilt tropical race 4 — commonly called TR4.

Los ministros y secretarios de Agricultura y Ganadería de México, Centroamérica y la República Dominicana –o sus representantes– participaron en la reunión virtual de trabajo del Comité Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (CIRSA). Una instancia en la que las autoridades [...]

Científicos internacionales trabajan junto al Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego de Perú para hacer estudios científicos en los campos de producción de banano orgánico en las regiones de Piura, Junín y Tum.

How sustainability and social involvement became an increasingly concrete, professional, and competitive market aspect. And how banana prices will play an increasingly important role.

On Tuesday, March 10, the Government of Guatemala approved the Law for the Protection of Banana and Plantain Crops in the country (Decree 7-2020). However, despite the approval of this new regulation, deputy Sonia Gutierrez, of the Winaq party, criticized [...]

The reliance on chemical pesticides in commercial monoculture production of bananas has been recognised as a contributing factor in the spread of the Tropical Race 4 disease currently threatening the existence of the dominant Cavendish banana sold in our supermarkets. Pesticides have [...]

Tras la aprobación de la Ley de Protección para el Cultivo del Plátano y Banano en la República de Guatemala, el Ministerio de Agricultura instalará una mesa técnica que analizará las campañas de prevención por el hongo Fusarium oxysporum, que [...]