DINDIGUL: Sirumalai Banana farmers decry frequent attack of pests, insects and unseasonal rainfall for their losses in Dindigul district for the last few years. The Sirumalai Banana is known for its ...

The banana is the world’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100 million metric ... plants leaves the Cavendish intensely vulnerable to disease outbreaks. Fungal diseases severely devastated ...

crop diversity could further reduce the fungus' virulence. Bananas are being infected by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum TR4.

Banana Panama Disease, also known as Fusarium wilt ... appropriate nutrients to ensure optimal plant health. Practice Crop Rotation Rotate crops annually to prevent the buildup of soil-borne ...

offering promising insight for the creation of methods to slow or control the spread of the fungal disease threatening the banana crops. If bananas being wiped out from a fungal infection sounds ...

Contribute to sustainable banana and cacao production by developing disease management systems The Philippines is a major producer of bananas for export, and is also focusing on cacao production. By ...

Instead García-Bastidas wants to introduce more diversity into the banana crop so that it is more resilient to outbreaks of disease like TR4. He points out there are hundreds of bananas with the ...

PHILIPPINE banana exports fell 2.97% in 2024, with the industry currently dealing with Fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. In its Banana ...

Instead García-Bastidas wants to introduce more diversity into the banana crop so that it is more resilient to outbreaks of disease like TR4. He points out there are hundreds of bananas with the ...