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phyllosilicate:
Put your mind at rest, get assured of bumper harvest go macropropagated.



Kindly call 070 3231 3642 for your
macropropagated plantain suckers and
consultancy services on improved
techniques of plantain plantation
establishment and management .... you
would be glad you did.

gr8child:
You are just betraying your true character. When has it ever been okay for someone to take what does not belong to him, whether the owner needs it or not?

0taPiaPia:
The problem is that you guys insist people must buy up to a thousand when he can only afford a few based on land availability and other factors.

phyllosilicate:
What IITA and CARBAB say about macropropagated suckers:

" Farmers usually depend on natural regeneration of plantain for the supply of planting materials. This is a very slow process that often produces small numbers of planting materials that are usually contaminated by various soil pathogens such as nematodes and shortens the lifetime of plantation to only one or two cycles of cultivation, beyond which lodging occurs. IITA has developed techniques for the rapid multiplication of healthy planting materials. " IITA Ibadan.

"The cultivation of plantain is underexploited due to the inadequate provision of good quality propagation materials. The negative influence of parasites also leads to the use of poor quality suckers, resulting in growth cycle of only two years. The return on effort put in by farmers is therefore unsatisfactory, leading to further discouragement among plantain growers.
Fortunately, a number of intensive production techniques have been developed, including in vitro cultivation, typically used in research centres and macropropagation using the plantlet from stem fragments." (African Centre for Banana and Plantain Research, Duala Cameron)

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the pleasure of low price have been forgotten- Thomas Ruskin

Agritech:
Impressive, macropropagation is the way forward.