#PROSSIVA team at first East Africa #Banana Breeding Network meeting & field visit in #IITA Sendusu.#NARO, #RAB & #TARI well represented and ready to join forces to tackle banana food security challeges in the region.

Wonderful progress with banana tissue culture at #TARI Tengeru. Fatma & team are gearing up to produce high quality planting material for prefered banana hybrids and local cultivars for growers in #Tanzania. In #PROSSIVA we are refining this technology for preferred varieties.

🌱🇹🇿 Ravaged Bananas 🍌🧬 #Banana bunchy top virus disease is devastating banana production around Moshi in Northern #Tanzania, & spreading rapidly through most other banana-growing regions of the country. This demands urgent action from the government & its partners #BBTV

🌱 A Giant Humbled 🌿 A full grown #banana is a magnificent, towering plant. But attacks from microscopic banana bunchy top virus particles discolour, deform & stunt the plants, destroying any hope that the plant will thrive & bear fruit🍌 Moshi, #Tanzania 🇹🇿 #bbtv #prossiva

🧬🌿 BBTD Symptoms 🌱🧬 If you see these symptoms, notify your nearest agric. officer Banana bunchy top disease (BBTD) has diverse symptoms, including: 🟡 Yellow chlorotic leaf streaks ⚫ Stunting 🔴 Bunching of leaves 🔵 Streaking in petioles 🟠 Streaking in leaf lamina #BBTV

🌱🇹🇿 PROSSIVA BBTD 🌿🍌 Today #Tanzania stakeholders meet in Moshi to plan joint strategies to strengthen seed systems for #Banana & coordinate this work with efforts to tackle the banana bunchy top disease epidemic 👍🏼These are participants one-word expections 1️⃣👍🏼 #PROSSIVA

🌿🇹🇿 Seed 4 BBTD 🌱🧬 #TARI Tengeru & TARI-Maruku Tz🇹🇿 #banana researchers are fighting back against banana bunchy top disease by multiplying a wide diversity of Banana varieties free of virus in tissue culture - work being supported by #IITA #CGIAR & the #PROSSIVA project

🍌Stakeholders in Tanzania are coming together to tackle the dual challenge of Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) and seed system bottlenecks. #PROSSIVA, TARI Tanzania official page, IITA, and others are aligning efforts to ensure resilient banana seed systems. #Banana #BBTD #SeedSystems

🌍 In Tanzania, the fight against Banana Bunchy Top Disease is not fought alone. Stakeholders across sectors are pooling resources and expertise to safeguard banana crops and empower farmers. Together, we are stronger! #PROSSIVA #BBTV #Banana

🧬🌿 BBTD & SEED 2 🌱🇹🇿 Private Sector involvement is essential for sustainable systems for healthy seed delivery. Here, Jan and Balima of Maua Mazuri demonstrate impressive tissue culture production of #banana varieties - a vital resource for the #Tanzania banana seed system 🇹🇿

Dr Mpoki Shimwela is the dynamic leader of #Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute's Banana Programme, & is currently spearheading research efforts to tackle the devastating BBTD epidemic in the country. #IITA is proud to partner with Dr Mpoki in this important work🇹🇿 #PROSSIVA

Excellent meeting with committed teams ready to join forces for #banana seed system development and quality #seed delivery in 🇹🇿. Thanks to Mpoki Shimwela & #TARI team for coordinating.

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"We are on a mission to mobilize support and we'd like to do that with IITA and other CGIAR centers. While also exploring the elements for achieving a food-secure future especially in roots and tuber crops throughout the #foodsystems." - Dr Simon Heck, International Potato Center Director

Stakeholders in Ghana engage on yam and banana seed system roadmaps prossiva.iita.org/stakeholders-i…

Great privilege to have hosted team from the RTB Breeding visit me today at NIHORT to strengthen partnership on our mutual crop, plantain/banana. Your visit was timely and encouraging 🙏 OLUWATOSIN OLOMIDE Mercy Daniel National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Niteroi SO Swennen Rony PROSSIVA RootsTubersBananas Breeding

Researchers and seed entrepreneurs from @cipotato, NaCRRI, and sweetpotato 🍠 🍠 seed producers’ associations honed their skills in means-end chain analysis during a recent training program. 👉🏽 bit.ly/MKT-RTBSeedSys… 🔸 PROSSIVA

#CIP's Rosemary Gatimu produces disease free #sweetpotato vines at #KEPHIS as starter stocks for high quality #seed production. In #Prossiva we explore practical solutions to challenges with tissue culture lab contamination & long turnarround time for virus elimination.

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It was great yesterday as we hosted a team from Resourced and discussed progress of activities National Banana Research Program - NARO is doing under the PROSSIVA program. The team documented work being done on seed multiplication efficiency and how to ensure a healthy #seedsystem delivery.