Journalists Help Curb Banana Virus

BukobaDistribution, not the existing science, was the real failure.

Tanzanian researchers trained local journalists to reach farmers an extension service could not.

Bunchy top spreads through infected planting material and is incurable, so farmers must uproot productive-looking mats on trust alone.

Whether clean planting material reaches Kagera’s farmers now depends on the seed system.

Sources: SciDev.Net