Global banana industry faces huge obstacles

Ashley Walmsley
December 3 2017 - 5:00am
UNDER THREAT: The Cavendish banana is under threat globally from Panama disease Tropical Race 4 which presents a real concern for millions who rely on it as staple food.
UNDER THREAT: The Cavendish banana is under threat globally from Panama disease Tropical Race 4 which presents a real concern for millions who rely on it as staple food.

THE future of commercial banana production is diversity, something which isn't being exploited according to Dutch professor of tropical phytopathology, Gert Kema.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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