ICAR-NRC for Banana licenses, transfers macropropagation tech to Gujarat-based Jarvi Nursery

Technological know-how has been provided to the farmers of all the states

The ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu along with its associate partner – Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat has licensed and transferred a Farmers’-friendly Macropropagation Technology to the Gujarat-based Jarvi Nursery.

Dr S Uma, Director, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli & Inventor of the Technology stated that before commercialisation, the technology was tested in Karnataka, Odisha, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar representing the different agro-climatic zones for its viability. She underlined that the technology’s success has been witnessed and technological know-how has been provided to the farmers of all the states.

Dr S Backiyarani and Dr MS Saraswathi, Principal Scientists And Co-Inventors of the Technology outlined that a minimum of 25 healthy, true to type, disease-free plants may be obtained from the single sucker within the period of three to four months and throughout the year without any seasonal barriers.