For food security programmes we need to look at banana too. Felda and rural areas can support the banana need for the country. If every houses we plant banana than we probably can support the locals demand. BUT where are our research directions for growing, managing fruits quality, marketing, storage, basic sciences (genetics, diseases, uses of banana), etc. We cannot wait when we are at the critical stage.

One of the main challenges to farmers growing bananas today is the large number of diseases running around, threatening to destroy plantations at any time. But researchers in Australia now believe they may have found a solution to all of this, by introducing genetically-enhanced bananas into plantation.
In the new research, scientists sought to deal away with a condition known as Tropical Race Four, which severely affects banana yields in places ranging from Australia to equatorial nations. What the  the study did was create a trial crop of banana plants that are able to survive infections with a soil-borne fungus, famous for having wiped out banana trees across the globe.

It is caused by a fungus in the soil called Fusarium and causes the leaves to wilt and rots the inside of the plant. The disease has swept through much of Asia