ABSTRACT: The use of cover plants in banana plantations in Côte d'Ivoire concerns, the imperative of maintaining the competitiveness level of bananas on the European Union market, in a context of free trade, regarding the question of European food security concerning the physical quality of banana without glyphosate residues. Sustainable bananas production, therefore, call for research in organic and sustainable improvement in the fertility of the banana plantation by the reduction or even the elimination of pesticides, particularly herbicides, harmful to producers and consumers health. The aim is to produce banana without herbicide and to perpetuate this culture by the suppression of the erosion, the aeration, the maintenance of the microbial activity and the pedagogical structure of banana plantations soils.............
Keyword: Sustainable banana, Herbicides, Cover plants, Soilerosion, Côte d'Ivoire
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