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Improving small farm production and marketing of bananas under trees: Resource partitioning, living soils, cultivar choice and marketing strategies
Project
Project code: 81109044
Contract period: 01.01.2010
- 31.12.2012
Budget: 1,198,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Goal: Rural communities increase their income and food security through more productive, higher quality and more strategically marketed niche and gourmet Musa grown with locally adapted ecologically efficient, clean and profitable agro-forestry techniques. Purpose: Rural development agencies, non governmental organizations, community based organizations and agricultural research, education and extension programmes use innovative knowledge and tools for prioritizing research, piloting tactics to improve grower management and strengthening grower observation and decision making to increase the small holder productivity of Musa in agro-forests targeted to expanding high value and specialty markets.
Section overview
Subjects
- Arboriculture