The inaugural edition of the Banana Festival, a three-day celebration of innovation and agri-entrepreneurship, concluded at the Wokha Public Ground on October 24 with competitions, informative sessions, and the signing of key Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to strengthen the district’s banana value chain.

The festival, themed “Banana for Food, Fibre and Future,” featured an array of engaging activities including a banana-eating contest, fruit salad-making competition, best banana bunch contest, fancy dress and costume competition inspired by bananas, a quiz competition on banana cultivation and nutrition for school students, and the much-anticipated Sharpest Machete contest.

Technical sessions held throughout the event focused on three crucial aspects of banana farming — input and di

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