The 3.45 acres owned by M.K. Nishant, a farmer at Peruvaka near Mananthavady in Wayanad district, is literally a treasure trove of bananas, as he has been nurturing as many as 178 cultivars of ...

At first glance, they all look the same until you read the name boards kept on the foot of every plantain shoot and Babu Parambath describes the speciality of each of them. Then you start noticing the ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is undertaking vigorous researches to develop appropriate technologies to process some of the country's staple food crops to reduce post ...

New Zealand farmers can now assess the potential impact and investment of plantain, using OverseerFM. Plantain varieties have been used on New Zealand farms for some time, with positive effects on ...