Already new shoots are beginning to pierce the ground from banana trees felled by typhoon Bopha. It will take anything from between six and nine months for the trees to become productive again. However, for the industry to bounce back after the storm could take much longer than this.
“Banana plantations, like those in Compostella Valley, Davao Oriental and Davao del Norte need farm inputs like fertilisers and insecticides and I think farmers would be very much in need of that at this time considering the devastation caused by Bopha on their farms,” Ivette Matabalan, who works as a researcher for the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) said.
Many of the planters affected are independent farmers and are not members of PBGEA, she said, thus, all the more in need of support from government.
Source: gulfnews.comPublication date: 12/12/2012
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