Plant Tissue Culture for Banana Production
About Lesson
  • Banana is the top traded in the world.
  • Philippines is the 2ndtop exporter banana exporter in the world, next to Panama.
  • In the Philippines, most of the well-known banana varieties are Cavendish, Lakatan and Saba.
    • Cavendish is for export and produced in a large-scale volume from the Mindanao regions. Most of the large businesses involved in Cavendish production and export are found in Mindanao.
    • Lakatan variety is for domestic consumption and farm production is not yet established.
    • Saba is usually consumed in a form of snack like banana chips, banana cue and banana turon.