The factors that influence farmers' decisions to produce cooking banana for market in southeast Nigeria were examined. Data were collected from a random sample of 217 farmers through the use of a structured questionnaire. Results of the study indicate that about 80% of the farmers interviewed pro...
Cette étude a examiné les facteurs qui influencent la décision du paysan de produire la banane à cuire pour le marché dans le sud-est du Nigéria. Les résultats de l'étude montrent qu'environ 80% de paysans interrogés produisent la banane à cuire à la fois pour l'autoconsommation et pour la vente....
Tshiunza, M.
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Lemchi, J.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Determinants of market production of cooking banana in Nigeria]
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Determinants of market production of cooking banana in Nigeria
Cooking bananas (Musa spp., ABB genome) were intro-duced into Southeastern Nigeria by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in the mid-1980s as an interim measure to reduce the incidence of black sigatoka disease (caused by the fungus Mycosphaerel-la fijiensis Morelet) on pla...
Les bananes a cuire (Musa spp., genome ABB) ont ete introduites au Nigeria par I’insitut International d’Agriculture Tropicale (IITA) au milieu des annees 1980 comme mesure transitoire pour reduire I’incidence de la cercosporiose noire (cause par le champignon Mycosphaerella fijiensis Morelet) su...
Tshiunza, M.
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Lemchi, J.
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Onyeka, U.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Cooking Banana consumption patterns in the Plantaingrowing area of Southeastern Nigeria]
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Cooking Banana consumption patterns in the Plantaingrowing area of Southeastern Nigeria
The aim of the Integrated Cassava Project (ICP) of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture was to pre-emptively manage the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) to avert an imminent and increasing possible threat of the Ugandan strain of the CMD virus of the pathogen from doing damage to the N...
Dixon, A.
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Akoroda, M.O.
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Okechukwu, R.U.
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Ogbe, F.
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Ilona, P.
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Sanni, L.O.
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Ezedinma, C.
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Lemchi, J.
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Ssemakula, G.N.
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Yomeni, M.
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Okoro, E.
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Tarawali, G.
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[Fast track participatory approach to release of elite cassava genotypes for various uses in Nigerias cassava economy]
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Fast track participatory approach to release of elite cassava genotypes for various uses in Nigerias cassava economy
High yielding and disease resistant plantain and banana hybrids and its associated technologies generated by IITA to combat the menace of black Sigatoka disease (Mycosphaerella fijiensis) were massively disseminated in year 2000. Since the hybrids were slightly different from the existing varieti...
Faturoti, B.O.
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Emah, G.N.
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Isife, B.I.
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Tenkouano, A.
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Lemchi, J.
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[Prospects and determinants of adoption of IITA plantain and banana based technologies in three Niger Delta States of Nigeria]
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Prospects and determinants of adoption of IITA plantain and banana based technologies in three Niger Delta States of Nigeria
Plantain and banana hybrid varieties that are resistant to black Sigatoka disease .(a leave disease reported to have caused between 30-50% yield loss in plantain across the wortd) were disseminated by IITA plantain improvement programme in three southern states of Nigeria. This study was designed...
Faturoti, B.
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Emah, G.
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Isife, B.
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Tenkouano, A.
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Adeniji, T.A.
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Lemchi, J.
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[Unlocking the profit potentials of an innovation: a case study of IITA hybrid plantains and bananas]
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Unlocking the profit potentials of an innovation: a case study of IITA hybrid plantains and bananas
Plantain production in Sub-Saharan Africa has been seriously threatened by black Sigatoka disease since the early 1980s. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture has succeeded in developing hybrids that are resistant to the disease, and out-yields the best landrace by about 100%. Befor...
Lemchi, J.
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Ezedinma, C.
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Tshiunza, M.
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Tenkouano, M.
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Faturoti, B.
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[Agroeconomic evaluation of black Sigatoka resistant hybrid plantains under smallholder management systems]
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Agroeconomic evaluation of black Sigatoka resistant hybrid plantains under smallholder management systems
As part of efforts in realising her aim of introducing cooking banana into Nigeria, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) mounted training and awareness campaigns on its utilisation in collaboration with Shell and Agip Oil companies between 1991 and 1997. This study looked in...
Lemchi, J.
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Tshiunza, M.
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Onyeka, U.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Factors driving the adoption of cooking banana processing and utilisation methods in Nigeria]
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Factors driving the adoption of cooking banana processing and utilisation methods in Nigeria