Can Banana Value Chain Help Eliminate Hunger in Uganda and Tanzania?

Approximately 70% of harvested bananas are consumed by producers themselves at home. Only 20% is sold to local, national (city) and export market traders. Currently, only a small amount is used for processing into secondary food. Bananas are staple food for most consumers in all income groups. Cooking bananas are most popular, followed by dessert bananas. But consumers also bought banana chips, banana juice, banana wine, banana pot cake (most popular products), banana wine / gin / banana cake, banana biscuits, basket, other handicraft items.

Banana bacterial wilt disease (BBW) is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. Musashi. BBW, which was originally identified as a close relative of Ensete ventricosum in the Ethiopian banana in the 1960s, occurred in Uganda in 2001 and affected all banana varieties. Since then, the BBW has been diagnosed in central and eastern Africa, including banana cultivation areas in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi and Uganda. Bananas have a narrow range of genetic diversity and given the many threats posed by biological (pests and diseases) and abiotic (such as drought) stress, comprehensive protection of banana genetic resources Is in progress. Banana genetic resources are protected by many domestic and regional gene banks, managed by Bioversity International and hosted in KU Leuven, Belgium, the world's largest banana family International Musa Genetic Resource Transport Center It is ITC.

This film spends a lot of time discussing the potential of genetic engineering to solve Ugandan banana crop problems. Uganda is studying vitamins and disease-rich bananas. Because bananas have no seeds, traditional banana breeding methods are difficult. They are all clones. So why are Uganda's jobs confronting such a tough review due to crops of Monsanto and Roundup Ready? Do not do it. Simply go through the grocery store to find out why. There are many factors in food prices, but efficiency may be an important part of it. So when I saw that the price of organic carrots at Sam club is not bigger than that of traditional large carrots, it told me that carrot organic agriculture system may be a good thing probably.

Depending on your requirements, genetically modified organisms or genetically modified organisms can deal with the threats to malnutrition, starvation, or food sovereignty in developing countries. I will take Uganda as an example. Ugandans eat an average of 1 pound banana per day - more than anyone else. However, this important resource has been threatened by wilting diseases that destroy banana plant juice with viscous withered leaves, spoiled fruits, and ultimately destroy crops. The first banana blight in 2001 occurred in Uganda, neither pesticides nor chemicals prevented it. The farmers tried to suppress the expansion of incineration by burning infected plants and disinfecting the tools, but the disease reduced Uganda's banana production by half from 2001 to 2004. Blight disease accounts for 80% of plants in the central part of the country, and sometimes it is even removed according to reports from guardians in these areas.