Conjunto Tecnológico para la Producción de Plátanos y Guineos “Plantains and Bananas”

The plantain crop has several advantages as food in the tropics and that adapts to a high level of technology with minimal mechanization. An acre of plantains on steep terrain with little chance for other uses in the humid highland, can produce as much dry matter content or calories for human consumption, as an acre of potatoes in machinable flat land of Idaho or other producing states.

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