Guyana’s plantain exports fell 100% after Sigatoka disease took hold – FAO

Plantain stalks that fell to the ground on this farm at Tuschen after they became affected with the Black Sigatoka disease. (Stabroek News file photo)

Two technicians from Guyana are among a group to undergo intensive training in managing the Black Sigatoka, disease which the United nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says led to the end of plantain exports from this country.

A release from the FAO yesterday said that as part of its response to the disease currently threatening the sucker crops it will be providing intensive training in management of the disease at a workshop to be held in Dominica from June 17 to June 22.

The workshop will train two technicians each from