Banana production in Côte d'Ivoire

Banana production in Côte d'Ivoire, as in most of Africa, is primarily for local consumption and consists of crops of dessert bananas and cooking bananas grown on open plantations and as intermittent crops from sea level to elevations of 2000 metres above sea level. West Africa is second to Central Africa in banana production in Africa and its use as a staple crop for local residents. Most of the banana crop in Central Africa is for local consumption, bananas being a major foodstuff in this area. [cite journal|last=Nigel|first=S.|title=The banana burrowing nematode, "Radopholus similis" (Cobb) "thorne", in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa : its introduction, spread and impact|journal=Nematology|Nematology|date=2006|volume=8|issue=6|pages=801-817|accessdate=2008-08-03] Export banana crops are grown in West Africa, with Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon being the two African nations that do a sizable export business in bananas, exporting the fresh fruit to Europe. [cite web|last=Diop|first=Ndiame|coauthors=Steven M. Jaffee|title=Fruits and vegetables: Global trade and competition in fresh and processed product markets|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGAT/Resources/GATChapter13.pdf|work=Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries|publisher=World Bank|date=|accessdate=2008-08-03] The soils, quantity and distribution of rainfall, and temperatures in equatorial West Africa produce combinations of suitable conditions for banana production.

Pests

*Black Sigatoka
*Yellow Sigatoka
*Septoria leaf spot disease
*Panama disease
*nematodes
*insects

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