Maputo — The Jacaranda banana production company has fully restored activities within 15,000 hectares in Metocheria locality of Monapo district, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula, after an outbreak of the Panama disease that caused the Matanuska company, which was initially implementing the project, to go bankrupt.
During the 1950s, Panama disease (also known as fusariaum wilt) almost wiped out the then dominant type of commercial banana, the Gros Michel banana. The disease inflicted enormous costs and forced producers to switch to other, disease-resistant cultivars. In recent years, a new outbreak of Panama disease caused by the strain Tropical Race 4 (TR4) threatens the production of the Cavendish banana<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana>, today's most popular type.
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