Photo caption: A farmer cuts down a banana plant, at her farm, in Kiwenda village, Busukuma, Wakiso District, Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Photo courtesy AP. A decapitated banana plant is almost ...

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MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must then uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. But can such stems somehow be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana ...