EARTH students present

Within the MUSA Project the Earth University students give some “Organic banana tips”. Gonzalo Crespo (Ecuador), Janina Rios (Paraguay), Juan Carlos Rodriguez (Ecuador), Bryan Merlo Osorio, (Guatemala) Obed Azofeifa (Costa Rica) Berson Valcin (Haiti) under the guidance of Prof. Luis Pocasangre. Check the videos on YouTube: http://www.projectmusa.eu/wp/project-activities/videos/

Bananas As We Know Them Are Doomed

There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind — the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global banana exports. But this multi-billion dollar industry is under threat. A fungus called Panama Disease is rapidly infecting the world’s Cavendish crops and …