In line with the Government’s National development plan II; 2021-2025, which focuses on industrialization to drive the country’s economic development, NARO’s Banana Research team has identified ways to develop products extractable from the whole banana plant.
Above: An Australian green resistant starch branded product.
Industrial ethanol and Green Resistant Starch are some of the two products the banana researchers are already working on.
“We are already extracting Green Resistant Starch from plantain, bogoya and East African highland bananas and Industrial ethanol from corm and we are confident about the results so far,” says Dr. Jerome Kubiriba, a Senior Researcher at NARO.
These efforts have direct positive impact on the socio-economic status of the Banana farmers and largely on the economy of the country through increased export from increased and improved production of the fruit.
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