However, in a major boost to producers, the countdown has begun for the export of these 2 GI products to the global market ...

Taita-Taveta County is the second largest banana producer in Kenya. However, with unreliable markets, poor infrastructure and limited access to quality seedlings, smallholder farmers who are at the ...

Abstract: Banana leaf diseases pose significant challenges to agriculture, reducing crop yields and threatening food security. Traditional manual disease detection is often labor-intensive and prone ...

A resourceful Thai hairdresser uses banana leaves instead of aluminium sheets to style her clients' hair. Ajarn Somporn, 40, said she switched to using strips of the resilient green leaves from banana ...

The Savannah Bananas will bring their 2026 tour to Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville. The exhibition team recently announced two new teams: the Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns. For a ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Arborists have been working on a potential ...

If you have deciduous trees in your yard, you have a source of free gardening gold—autumn leaves. Rather than clogging landfills with bags of leaves, you can use them to enhance the soil, suppress ...

If your lilacs are looking rough right now, it is probably lilac leaf spot, a relatively new fungal disease in Minnesota. Symptoms typically appear from July to September. Leaves turn yellow, then ...

DONE TO STOP IT. USUALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR THEY WOULD BE FULL OF LEAVES. WE COULDN’T SEE THROUGH THE CANOPY, BUT TAKE A WALK THROUGH RAVENSWOOD PARK IN GLOUCESTER AND YOU’LL SEE A PROBLEM AS CLEAR AS ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the American chestnut was ravaged by an invasive fungus that arrived from Asia. That fungus made the American chestnut functionally extinct, and although some ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...