Ivory coast bananas

[RV Pundit]

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In Europe, I see Bananas and pineapples from Ivory Coast. Kenya farmers should dump growing useless sugar cane and maize - and go large scale into bananas. You plant once;

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Monocultures are terrible... & the idea of growing food for ulaya I find distasteful because we Africa are not self sufficient in food yet.

[KenyanPlato]

Monoculture is dangerous.,we need to grow food for our people. Let Europeans eat soy or grow their own food. As matter of fact I wish we didn't grow tea and coffee to export

[RV Pundit]

Food insecurity is an income problem; not a lack of food problem. Farmers need to focus on making farming a profitable business. We export to Europe/US tropical foods that grow all year round - and we also import their crops - like wheat and such grains - that do well in temperate climate.

This is what Latin America countries do - and they richer than Africa.

Growing food for own consumption is a terrible life. Get the money and buy food PLUS other needs.

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[RV Pundit]

Somalia used to lead in Africa in Banana.
DelMonte are big in bananas in Latin America - but in Kenya they only do pine-apples and the likes.
In Uganda - Museveni people - Banyakole - grow upto 100 acres of Bananas per farm.
The problem is we have reserved some of the best land especially in rift valley plains to useless grain like Maize or Wheat.
Instead of growing tropical foods.

Merus indeed is big in bananas and many such crops - tissue culture - and you can see poverty there has dropped - and they are now the richest county.