Banana and plantain (Musa spp.) are important food and cash crop in Nigeria. Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) is a severe threat to banana production and the most economically important viral disease of banana and plantain worldwide (Kumar et al., 2011). The disease is caused by the banana bunchy top virus (BBTV,…
A training workshop on “Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) diagnosis, surveillance and emergency response” was held 14 to 16 January 2019 at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. The workshop, sponsored by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (CRP-RTB), was attended by 20 participants from Togo – Direction de la Protection des Végétaux (DPV), Institut de…
IITA planned a training workshop on “Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) diagnosis, surveillance and emergency response” from 14th to 16th January 2019 at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. Purpose of the workshop is to offer hands-on training in application of on-field diagnostics for the detection of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) using…
Farmers day was organized to generate awareness about the Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) disease in Amban City Hall, Cameroon on 20th November 2018, to inform “bunchy top” infected plants are not “suckers”, how to recognize disease infected plants and means of eradication. Event co-hosted by IITA and MINAGRI as…
Approximately 50 experts from 20 countries have gathered in Bujumbura, Burundi this week to coordinate an ambitious effort to contain the spread of Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) in Africa and help farmers to recover from the devastation that disease has wrought. BBTD has spread rapidly across Southern Africa in recent decades,…