Bananas Remain Ireland’s Top Choice Baby Snack
Irish banana importer Fyffes popular pre-packed bananas emerged as the Gold Award winner in the Food and Feeding section of the competition for the fifth time in the competition’s six year history. …
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Sustainable Bananas in Greenhouses: First ‘Dutch Bananas’ Harvested
“We developed this plan together with the local cooperation Boerenhart: the cultivation of a regional banana in the Wageningen greenhouses,” says Professor of Tropical Plant Pathology Gert Kema. “With this experiment we will investigate whether this cultivation offers prospects for further research into mastering Fusarium wilt. This is due to a soil borne fungal pathogen that threatens the banana production throughout the world. So we took the banana out of the soil.” …