Plantain, banana and pineapple tissue culture

Biochemical Products Ghana LtdNingo Prampram Road, New Ningo,

Dangme West District, Greater Accra, GHANA, West Africa

We are located off the Prampram New Ningo road opposite the Tä lagoon, New Ningo, Greater Accra Region, Ghana,

West Africa.

Biochemical Products Ghana Ltd Ningo biotechnology centre, Dangme West

District, Ghana, West Africa

The plantain and banana “mother garden”

The starter material

The “explant”

Preparing explant for initiation

Surface sterilization

Surface sterilizing the explant

Explant transferred into growth medium

In the controlled environment (growth) room

Successive transfers in the laminar flow cabinet

Plantlet multiplication and rooting

Screen house for acclimatization and nursery to field readiness

De-flasking and first stage transplant for acclimatization

Acclimatization chamber

Acclimatized plantlets in seedling trays

ready for sale of transplant into soil bags

Field ready in soil bags

Field ready plants in nursery

Reduced time to fruit formation

Advantages of tissue culture plants

• Suckers produced are Identical in character to parent stock

• Disease free: no virus, nematode, fungus etc

• Year round lab production of suckers for year round field planting

• Reduced time to maturity e.g. apem hemaa flowers in 8 months

• Large numbers of suckers for planned plantation development

To order

• For large scale, call us to plan your crop.

• Better to plant throughout the year

• Mono crop requires 1,800 suckers per hectare

• Remember, initiation to field readiness takes six months