{"id":224,"date":"2017-05-09T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronzag.com\/uscrf\/?p=224"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T09:06:28","slug":"why-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Why Banana ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas rank highest amongst the most important food crops in Uganda. Annual production is currently estimated at 8.45 million tons, accounting for 15% of total world banana output. In Uganda, over 7 million people including 65% of the urban population depend on the crop as their staple. It is estimated that 75% of the farmers grow the crop on 1.3 million hectares. Most of this production is for local consumption, the country having the highest consumption rate worldwide (per capita consumption 450kg).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing food, bananas ensure income to the farmer throughout the year, play a key role in import substitution, provide soil surface cover, reduce soil erosion on steep slopes and are a principal source of mulch for maintaining soil fertility and improving penetration of water into the soil. Bananas also provide feeds for animals. Besides, there is a socio economic culture based on the banana crop. USCR choose banana with this background in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas rank highest amongst the most important food crops in Uganda. Annual production is currently estimated at 8.45 million tons, accounting for 15% of total world banana output. In Uganda, over 7 million people including 65% of the urban population depend on the crop as their staple. It is estimated that 75% of the farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gpage1-img17.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscrfuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}