The Musa R&D networks representing stakeholders from banana-producing regions join the ProMusa Steering Committee.

The second joint ISHS-ProMusa symposium ‘Global perspectives on Asian challenges’ was held in Guangzhou, China, 14-18 September 2009.

Stephan Weise and Jim Lorenzen have been elected as the new chair and vice-chair of the ISHS banana and plantain section. 

Rony Swennen was awarded the ‘Kadali Puraskar’ in recognition of his tireless work on behalf of smallholder farmers and his contributions to the improvement of banana and plantain.

Adapted from the keynote addresses made by David Jones and Richard Markham at the ISHS/ProMusa Symposium on ‘Recent Advances in Banana Crop Protection for Sustainable Production and Improved Livelihoods’.

The ProMusa Crop Production Working Group held its second working group meeting in Mombasa, Kenya on October 10, back-to-back with the International Banana Conference.

The members of each working group have participated in an electronic election to choose the Chairperson and Vice-chairperson of their respective group.

The first symposium organized under the new alliance between ISHS and ProMusa was held in South Africa in September 2007.