banana farmer

DAVAO CITY --- Some 150 banana farmers with 50,000 hectares in Davao del Norte have decided to shift into corn farming after Fusarium wilt or Panama disease affected their farms since last year. The farmers incurred huge loss on their plantations which will take years to recover given the length of the healing period, a condition which prompted them to shift to … [Read more...] about Banana disease forces planters to shift to corn farming