Newly bred Matoke banana for Tanzania

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJOgOJRYQMen
cg.placeIbadan, Nigeriaen
cg.subject.iitaBANANAen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT BREEDINGen
cg.subject.iitaAGRONOMYen
dc.contributor.authorInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-08T11:55:03Zen
dc.date.available2025-04-08T11:55:03Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174047
dc.titleNewly bred Matoke banana for Tanzaniaen
dcterms.abstract“Matooke” are an important staple crop in the Highlands of East Africa. They provide food security for nearly 2.5 mio households. Uganda and Tanzania are respectively the first and second producer. These bananas are harvested when still green and then steamed or boiled, and sometimes mashed before consumption. Currently, farmers’ average productivity is around 7 t/ha/year. These low yields are due too many pests and diseases. In 2021 four matooke hybrids were released in Tanzania and this video shows farmers in the Kagera region cultivating these matooke hybrids with yields ranging from 18 to 35 t/ha/year due to resistance to black Sigatoka leaf disease and banana weevils. These new matooke hybrids were developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO) of Uganda and named NARITAs. They were later tested in Tanzania during 5 years by the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) and its partners.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceExtensionen
dcterms.audienceFarmersen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture. (2024). Newly bred Matoke banana for Tanzania. Ibadan, Nigeria: IITAen
dcterms.issued2024-11-12en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
dcterms.subjectbananasen
dcterms.subjectmusa (bananas)en
dcterms.subjectbreedingen
dcterms.typeVideo

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