The world produces about 45 million tonnes of bananas each year. Some 15 per cent of this constitutes the international banana trade and the remainder is consumed locally (Anon 1979). The banana is an important food crop for man, especially in the tropics. Experimental work aimed at testing new agronomic practices or at understanding growth and development has been relatively limited for a crop of its importance. Forty per cent more bananas are produced than citrus but research effort on citrus has been five to six times greater judged by the num-ber of articles abstracted in //orti-cultural Abstracts in recent years. There may be many reasons for this but one is that the results of banana field investigations are often unusally difficult to interpret.
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