Local Farmers will be involved in a National Re-planting exercise this year, year, as part of the nation-wide Banana Rehabilitation Programme.
Head of the Banana Services Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture, Sylvester Vanloo, says over one hundred and seventy Acres had been re-planted, at the end of last year.
He said farmers are still receiving Banana Plants to carry forward the operation: “Plant Back” programme.
Mr. Vanloo said the Ministry of Agriculture is anticipating that several Banana Plantations will be back in operation this year, as the distribution of banana plants continues.
The Operation Plant Back Programme follows the cut back of plantations, to control the Black Sigatoka leaf spot disease
