date:May 09, 2019
Establishing a healthy orchard starts with choosing the correct plant material. In South Africas only laboratory of its type, banana plants are cultivated from tissue culture to produce high yielding clones.
In a laboratory in Letsitele, Limpopo, a team of technicians is quietly at work creating what will grow to become South Africas entire banana crop. The process seems more related to medical science than agriculture: the employees, wearing face masks and gloves and wielding scalpels, work in