UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE GOES COMMERCIAL WITH MICROPROPOGATION SCIENCE.

UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE HAS STARTED A MICROPROPOGATED FACTORY FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF PLANTS FOR NEW LARGE AGRICULTURE ENTERPRISES.

  The initial thrust is to be providing sugar cane plants and bananas.  At first this airconditioned industry started off with producing orchids for export.  But lacked the marketing and specie choices to become a success.  The Cubans who use the technology have stepped in and are going to show us how to boost sugar cane types and yields.  This is a fancy science way of mass producing plants for putting into newly cleared and prepared large scale farms.  Bananas and Sugar are the main goals at present.  They use bathing with culture media, in special vessels.  Even growth hormones are used.  UB is looking for a 25 day cycle in production.  An artificial environment is used, and the young cuttings are carefully tended through four phases, before they are suitable to be planted in the fields.  New superior varities can be introduced this way.  The UB camps is at Central Farm for this new venture.