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Bananas and Food Security : Les Productions Bananières : Un Enjeu Bananas and Food Security Les productions bananières : un enjeu économique majeur pour la sécurité alimentaire International symposium, Douala, Cameroon, 10-14 November 1998 C. Picq, E. Fouré and E.A. Frison, editors Bananas and Food Security COOPERATION FRANÇ AISE CTA Les productions bananières : un enjeu économique majeur pour la sécurité alimentaire bananières Les productions CIRAD F I IS A N T PA COOPERATION FRANÇAISE CTA C R B P C R B P INIBAP ISBN 2-910810-36-4 Acknowledgements INIBAP is grateful to all the participants of the International Symposium “Bananas and Food Security/Les productions bananières: un enjeu économique majeur pour la sécurité alimentaire” for their contribution to these proceedings. INIBAP would especially like to thank: • the Centre de recherches régionales sur bananiers et plantains (CRBP), who took the initiative to hold the meeting and contributed material and staff resources to ensure the workshop’s success, and the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), who played a key role in ensuring the scientific quality of the meeting. • The Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the European Union, the Coopération Française (CF) for their financial support for this event, and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its coopera- tion and input. • In addition, INIBAP would like to express its gratitude to the Government of Came- roon for hosting this symposium and thanks the members of the Scientific Committee for ensuring the high quality of presentations made at this symposium. • C. Picq, E. Fouré and E.A. Frison for their conscientious work as scientific editors of the proceedings, • D. Conaré and A. Scaife for the technical editing of these proceedings, • E. Lipman who undertook the last proofreading of the proceedings. Editorial note Some references have been submitted without complete publishing data. They may thus lack the full names of journals and/or the place of publication and the publisher. Should readers have difficulty in identifying particular references, staff at INIBAP will be glad to assist. Sommaire Allocution d’ouverture de M. le Secrétaire Général représentant le Ministre de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique 9 Allocution d’ouverture du Centre technique de coopération agricole et rurale (CTA) 13 Opening speech by Dr Emile Frison, Director of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP) 15 Session 1 – Importance de la banane sur les plans économique et alimentaire Importance of bananas – economically and as a source of food 17 Synthèse des discussions / Workshop overview 19 Emile Frison and Suzanne Sharrock Introduction : The economic, social and nutritional importance of banana in the world 21 Amérique Latine - Caraïbes / Latin America - Caribbean Clóvis Oliveira de Almeida, J. da Silva Souza, M. de Souza Leal and J-L. Loyola Dantas The banana crop in Brazil: economic aspects from production to sale 39 Luis Tazán and Gladys Tazán de Coto Banana and plantain production in Ecuador – Export and domestic trade 59 José Surga, A. Bolivar et L.V. Trujillo Caractérisation de la production et de la commercialisation des Musa au Venezuela 67 Afrique / Africa Achille Bikoï Les production bananières au Cameroun : étude de cas 89 Bakelana Ba Kufimfut et T. Muyunga La production de bananes et de bananes plantain en République Démocratique du Congo 103 Célestin Madembo, F. Ngouaka, A. Gaye, N. Yoyo-Moussitou et E. Ngoua-Oka Les productions bananières au Congo : synthèse 113 Daniel Shamebo Banana in the southern region of Ethiopia (SRE) 119 4 Les productions bananières / Bananas and food security M. Cisse et Lanciné II Condé Les bananiers et bananiers plantain en Guinée Forestière 135 B. Banful Production of plantain, an economic prospect for food security in Ghana 151 P.O. Ogazi Plantain as a global commodity for food security 161 C.S. Gold, Andrew Kiggundu, D.A. Karamura and A.M. Abera Diversity, distribution and selection criteria of Musa germplasm in Uganda 163 Gerda Rossel The history of plantain in Africa: a taxonomic-linguistic approach 181 Asie – Pacifique / Asia – Pacific K. Pushkaran Genetic diversity of bananas in south India with special reference to Kerala 199 P. Sundararaju Status paper on banana in India 209 L. Setyobudi The Indonesian banana industry 227 P. Viswanath, S.K. Nadaf, Y. Mazroui, A.A. Al-Jabry, A.N. Bakry and O.K. Hussaein Present status of banana production in Oman 237 Session 2 – Diversité et dynamique des filières Diversity and dynamics of the sectors 251 Synthèse des discussions / Workshop overview 253 H. Tézenas du Montcel Introduction : Diversité et dynamique des filières de production et de transformation des bananes de consommation locale 255 Amérique Latine - Caraïbes / Latin America - Caribbean 263 Thierry Lescot and Franklin Rosales Importance des productions locales de bananes et bananes plantain en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes 265 Maria Claudia Walker Herrera Plantain trade in Colombia: the central coffee regional market 285 Thierry Lescot, José Manuel Alvarez et Orlando Rodriguez M. Les productions bananières à Cuba 299 Sommaire / Contents 5 Thierry Lescot et Fabien N’Guyen La banane plantain en Haïti : une filière en difficulté? 311 Jose Orozco Romero Bananas and plantains in Mexico 327 Thierry Lescot, R. Perez Duvergé, H. Ricardo and J. Mancebo Les productions bananières en République Dominicaine 339 Afrique / Africa 351 Ekow Akyeampong Plantain production, marketing and consumption in West and Central Africa 353 Jean Tchango Tchango and J.A. Ngalani Transformations et utilisations alimentaires de la banane plantain en Afrique centrale et occidentale 361 A.O. Olorunda Bananas and food security in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of post harvest food technologies 375 U. Onyeka, A.O. Olorunda and R.S.B. Ferris Postharvest potential of different Musa genotypes with respect to storage and handling 383 Emmanuel Mbetid-Bessane Etat des lieux de la production et de la commercialisation des bananes en République Centrafricaine 391 Eldad Karamura, E. Frison, D.A. Karamura and S. Sharrock Banana production systems in eastern and southern Africa 401 Ndungo M. Vigheri Contribution à l’étude préliminaire de l’influence variétale sur certaines qualités organoleptiques de la bière de banane 413 Asie – Pacifique / Asia – Pacific Agustín B. Molina and R.V. Valmayor Banana production systems in Southeast Asia 423 Valérie Kagy Importance alimentaire, socio-économique et culturelle de la banane dans la société kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie 437 Jose M. Yorobe, Jr. Banana marketing in the Philippines: Performance and Prospects for development 445 Det Wattanachaiyingcharoen and Pirot Phongthong “Kluai Khai” (Musa AA) production improvement and management in the lower northern region of Thailand 465 6 Les productions bananières / Bananas and food security Session 3 – Organisation des marchés et commercialisation Organisation of markets and marketing 473 Synthèse des discussions / Workshop overview 475 Jean Chataigner Introduction : Marchés et commercialisation des bananes de consommation locale 477 Afrique / Africa 485 M. Tshiunza, J.I. Lemchi, C.I. Ezedinma and A. Tenkouano Market status of cooking bananas in Southeast Nigeria 487 A. Bikoi and G. Yomi Origine et gestion de l’instabilité sur les marchés des produits vivriers : le cas de la filière plantain à Douala, Cameroun 497 S. Dury, N. Bricas, J. Tchango Tchango and A. Bikoï La consommation et les critères de qualité du plantain à Douala et Yaoundé 507 Ludovic Temple et J. Engola Oyep Système d’information des marchés et analyse de la sécurité alimentaire. Le cas du plantain dans le centre et le sud du Cameroun 525 Achille N’Da Adopo, G. Amafon Aguie, M. Kehe, F. Kamara et V. Fofana Les perspectives d’évolution du circuit de distribution de la banane plantain en Côte d’Ivoire 537 B. Osseni, Z. Séry, A. N’Guessan A. et N. Th. Yao Evolution des circuits de commercialisation de la banane plantain à l’échelle d’une petite localité du sud forestier de la Côte d’Ivoire 555 Europe 565 Denis Lœillet Le marché international bananier : une gamme de produits très étroite 567 Honoré Tabuna Le marché de la banane plantain en France et en Belgique 577 Amérique Latine - Caraïbes / Latin America - Caribbean 591 Mildred Cortés, C. Alamo and G. González A study of viability for the establishment of marketing orders in Puerto Rico 593 Asie – Pacifique / Asia – Pacific 599 Chen Weixin, Wu Zhenxian, Su Meixia and Zhu Jianyun Postharvest technology, transportation and marketing of bananas in China 601 Sommaire / Contents 7 H. P. Singh, S. Uma and M. Dayarani Marketing channels and processing chains of plantain chips in South India 607 S. Uma, H.P. Singh, M. Dayarani and K.J. Jeyabaskaran Organisation structure of banana supply and marketing in India – a case study 621 Session 4 – Systèmes de productions / Production systems 633 Synthèse des discussions / Workshop overview 635 Bruno Delvaux Introduction : Banana cropping systems: characterisation, dynamics and modelling in view of improving the management of soil fertility 637 Afrique / Africa 647 R. Achard et P. Sama Lang Description des systèmes de production du sud-ouest du Cameroun : quels enseignements pour l’intervention de la recherche 649 Bruno Iratchet Un outil pour orienter la recherche et apporter des réponses aux problèmes des producteurs de bananes plantain dans le sud-ouest du Cameroun : l’exemple de l’observatoire agro-phytosanitaire 667 Casimir Makambila La culture du bananier plantain dans les régions du Niari, de la Bouenza et de la Lekoumou 683 F. Mouketo and J.-P. Kampe Les productions bananières au Congo 687 Bouraïma Osseni Les systèmes de culture comportant le bananier plantain en Côte d’Ivoire 689 K.R. Green, A. Mensah-Bonsu, S. Adjei-Nsiah and K. Afreh-Nuamah Farmers’ perceptions of integrated crop management strategies for plantain production in Ghana 697 A. Mensah-Bonsu, K.R. Green, S. Adjei-Nsiah, E.K. Andah and K. Afreh-Nuamah Economic analysis of integrated crop management strategies for plantain production in Ghana 707 A.R.
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