Functions

• Commercialisation of production of matooke as an industrial raw material
• To ensure continued food security

Approach:

• High input strategy- utilising fertilizers including the biomass dryer by-products.
• Soil management best practices-through training & research
• Irrigation/fertigation will be modelled initially at TBI & later in selected communities tapping into Bushenyi District vast water resources
• Agro diversity

This will lead to a commercially competitive productivity of:-

• Plant population increased up to 2200 stools per ha.
• Productivity up to four bunches per stool per year.
• Minimal crop loss through wind damage..
• Yield increased from current 7tons/ha/year to 70-80 tons/ha/year.
• Cost per Kg falls up to 5 times hence increasing competitiveness of banana flour on the market.