Efforts by the Ministry of Agriculture to educate farmers on how to combat the Black Sigatoka disease is having a positive impact with many now able to contain the fungus resulting in bountiful plantain harvests which has caused a drop in the price of the crop on the local market.
This is according to the Ministry, which, in a statement yesterday, said that the impacts of the interventions are being felt with many plantain farmers being able to have better control of the Black Sigatoka disease. Currently, many farmers across the country are harvesting plantains. The abundance of the crop on the local market has caused the price to fall from $100 per pound to $60 per pound in some areas, the statement said.
