Geographic shifts in the highland cooking banana (Musa spp., group AAA-EA) production in Uganda

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-59

  Gold, Clifford S ^a   Karamura, Eldad B ^b   Kiggundu, Andrew ^a   Bagamba, Fred ^b   Abera, Agnes M K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

^b National Agricultural Research Organization   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Banana marketing; Banana nematodes; Banana weevil; Banana yield decline; Highland banana; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; FRUIT; YIELD;

UGANDA;

EID: 0032799374     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504509.1999.9728471     Document Type: Article

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