The Ministry of Agriculture with support from regional and international organisations has embarked on a programme to revitalize the banana and plantain sectors.
Last week, the first shipment of plantlets from France arrived in Dominica and was transplanted at the agricultural station in Portsmouth.
Head of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Unit, Ryan Anselm says this is Phase One of an integrated programme initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture.
“The Ministry is not going to stop with 60,000 plants; we’re going to continue the programme so we can fully rehabilitate the banana [industry],” he said. “Part of the programme is to establish some pilot plots at Castle Bruce and Calibishie. The entire country will see a [phased approach] to the rehabilitation of the banana and plantain subsectors.
Anselm also added Cavendish bananas are favoured on the UK market which explained why this variety of plantlets was selected for attention.
“We have worked with CARDI to bring in [Black Sigatoka]resistant varieties which we will be distributing to subsistence farmers.”
The purchase of the banana plantlets was facilitated by the European Union through its Banana Accompanying Measures Programme.
” support from regional and international organisations has embarked on a programme to revitalize the banana and plantain sectors.”
Oh, what a thing!
What a lie!
I would like Drigo to publish the names of the international and regional organization helping in the revitalization of planting fig tree in Dominica. These people are so damn lie, last week we saw a picture of some grown banana plants, they claimed came from France, this week they make this claim:
” Last week, the first shipment of plantlets from France arrived in Dominica:” So here it is another lie exposed! So it appears the plants were grown before they arrived!
I am pleased to learn of plans to revitalise the banana industry in Dominica. It is now impossible to buy Dominica bananas in the UK. The market has been taken over not only by countries like the Dominican Republic and other south American countries but also African countries, such as Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroon. What has replaced bananas in Dominica as a revenue generating industry?
Now, unless they began tagging the ripe bananas sold in stores in England, France Germany, Belgium and other places in Europe with the name of the place of origin, it is impossible for one to go into a store, or market, and identify a banana from Dominica.
I once lived on Potter Street in Harlow Essex, and used to go to the market, and buy a half of a hand of ripe bananas, every weekend; never once I’ve ever seen the name Dominica written on one single ripe banana.
Now in America, we find the Bananas imported from South America labeled Dole or Cheketa, most of the time the fruits are packed on the shelves in the boxes’s they were shipped; that’s how we identify where the came from.
Let me correct something here, for accuracy only:
I lived at 103 Carters Mead; off Potters Street!
How can one revitalize an industry that is alive . The opposition said that we killed agriculture but what we did was to allow our soil to be revitalized so that we can resume agriculture after 15 years of labar Ka twavaille. The opposition just did not understand what we were doing. We did not kill agriculture – we simply put agriculture on the back burner where there was no gas to light the back burner.
We in the labor Party always held the opinion that agriculture is a has been industry -why build feeder roads or invest in agriculture inputs ; why trade when there is aid.
EU Gives us money in one hand and take in back in the other>>>> When will the slavery stop>>>>
Is that bananas for ants ?
are you phacking dumb or trying to be a smarta**
Are you retarded or just stupid?