Black Sigatoka

Story of the Banana Farmers of Nueva Requena

Submitted by bruce on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 12:52

Nueva Requena
Region: Ucayali
Peru
South America

banana
plantain

A letter from the banana farmers of Nueva Requena to Dr Elsa Carbonell, Ministry of Agriculture, Region: Ucayali

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Black Sigatoka Project in Panama

Submitted by aleta on Tue, 11/20/2001 - 15:05

In January, 1997, Roger Subotnik and I traveled to Panama to introduce Homa Therapy as a means to combat the plant disease Black Sigatoka. This leaf fungus attacks banana and plantain crops, and has killed thousands of acres of plantain trees in Venezuela and Colombia. Stronger and stronger fungicides have been used to fight the disease, and some success has been achieved for a while. But eventually a point is reached when the only chemicals capable of killing the fungus are also deadly to man. Hundreds of farmers in South America have abandoned their farms due to the devastation caused by this disease.

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