Keeping pace with Panama disease in bananas

摘要

BANANA IS THE widest grown tropical tree crop and in terms of fruit production the biggest in tonnage at least. However, the pre-eminent position of dessert-type (eating) bananas within international banana trading should not over-shadow the importance of vegetable (cooking) bananas (e.g. plantains and Bluggoe bananas). These bananas represent an important staple high starch food for communities throughout the Far Eastern and Pacific tropical regions of the world.