NARITA 15

Caption:: NARITA 15 (left) is a high-yielding and disease-resistant hybrid that is related, through its female grandparent Enzirabahima (right), to a group of cooking and beer bananas called East African highland bananas. The female parent 660K-1 (middle) is a disease-resistant tetraploid. NARITA 15 is named after NARO and IITA, the institutes that jointly developed it.
Keywords:: Crop improvement, Improved hybrid, NARITAs
Date shot:: March 2014
Locality:: IITA Sendusu station, Namulonge
Country:: Uganda
Photographer:: Batte, Michael / IITA