NARITA 17

Caption:: NARITA 17 (left) is a high-yielding and disease-resistant hybrid that is related, through its female grandparent Entukura (right), to a group of cooking and beer bananas called East African highland bananas. The female parent 1438K-1 (middle) is a disease-resistant tetraploid. NARITA 17 is named after NARO and IITA, the institutes that jointly developed it.
Keywords:: Crop improvement, Improved hybrid, NARITAs
Date shot:: January 2014
Locality:: IITA Sendusu station, Namulonge
Country:: Uganda
Photographer:: Batte, Michael / IITA