Welcome
Greetings,
The National Banana Research Program is one of the national priority crop commodity programs of the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) whose mandate is to develop and promote technologies for enhancing the contribution of banana value chains for food security and agro-industrialisation.
Know your bananas well
Latest NEWS
Farmer Earns Ugx 6M from Banana Suckers in Northern Uganda
A farmer in Nwoya District has earned over six million Ugandan shillings from selling banana suckers since March this year.
Alfred Komakech is one of...
NARL Showcases Banana Agronomic Practices at OPM's Kisoboka Campaign in Central Region
A team from NARL’s National Banana Research Program participated at the two-day nationwide Farmers' Mobilisation, Education, Value Addition & Serv...
NARL Welcomes New Director of Research
On 31st July, the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) officially welcomed Dr. Robooni Tumuhimbise as the new Director of Research and b...
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Years Of Existence
WHAT WE DO
Our Services
Research
The National Banana Programme develops and promotes technologies for enhancing the contribution of banana value chains for food security and Agro-industrialisation.
Advisory
The programme provides advisory services on the best practices to productive banana farming including how one can plan to manage a plantation using resources within and around banana cropping systems.
Capacity building
The programme also provides capacity building to students and researchers focusing on the banana production and productivity.
The Openfield Timeline
In 1990's, the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) and its partners International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Bioversity started a banana breeding programme in Uganda
The first improved banana varieties (hybrids) were released in 2010. Kabana 6H (M9) and Kabana 7H (M2).
Special Attributes:
- Tolerant to nematodes
- Tolerant to banana weevils
- Resistant to Black Sigatoka
- Yield capacity of 60tons/ha/yr
- Best for cooking
NARO released 4 improved banana varieties including NAROBan1 (M19), NAROBan2 (M20), NAROBan3 (M255) and NAROBan4 (M27)
Special Attributes:
- Tolerant to nematodes and weevils
- Resistant to Black Sigatoka
- Bunch weight 61kgs - 84kgs
- Yields capacity of more than 60tons/ha/year
- Soft, tasty, aromatic and near-yellow color.
NARO released NAROBan4 (M27 in 2018.)
Best for: Cooking
Special Attributes:
- Tolerant to nematodes and weevils
- Resistant to Black Sigatoka
- Bunch weight 60.5kgs
- Yields capacity of 54.5tons/ha/year
- Soft, tasty, aromatic and near-yellow color.
- Economic return ha/yr Ugx 13,612,500
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