The seedling from stem fragment (PIF) method: cultivation and sanitation of plantain at the farm scale
La méthode du PIF: multiplication et assainissement des plants de bananiers plantains à la ferme
Résumé
In the context of agroecological transition in which synthetic products are increasingly
limited and criticized, prophylactic measures are presented as a path of investigation.
In the French West Indies, civil society, particularly marked by the scandal of chlordecone,
an insecticide used in the past to control banana weevils, is urging actors in the
agricultural sector to find more agroecological solutions. Among them, the PIF (Plants
Issus de Fragment de tige or ‘Seedling resulting from stem fragment’ in English) method
was developed in Cameroon to address the lack of healthy plantain seedlings
and has shown particularly interesting results. The PEYI experimental unit of the INRAE
Antilles-Guyane center adapted this method to Guadeloupean conditions, as part
of the IntensEcoPlantain project in 2019 and 2020, to enable producers to multiply
and sanitize plantain plants on the farm scale autonomously using agroecological
practices. More than three years after the beginning of the project, the method has
been adapted to the conditions of the territory, allowing the multiplication of up to 20
times of the number of small plants for a cost of less than €1.60 per plant. Workshops
were organised to disseminate the method to farmers and several of them have now
adopted it.
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