An agronomist assists a training participant to identify and break the eyelets on a plantain sucker. Photo: PROTEGE QV
As part of its urban agriculture programme, PROTEGE QV organised a training workshop in 2013 on the rapid multiplication of plantain “suckers” for planting.
The workshop was organised to fulfil a need expressed by the urban community for the creation of plantations of this staple crop. The main obstacle faced by community members was the fact that the suckers used for planting were either difficult to obtain or prohibitively expensive. Through the training workshop, participants were able to learn techniques that make it possible to obtain numerous suckers from a single corm (plantain stem).