Nursery production of 'high health' banana planting material and establishing an industry specification is recognised within Australia as playing an important role in supporting the Australian banana production industry.

Purchasers of banana planting material, and regulatory authorities, require assurance that plants purchased and moved between interstate and intrastate biosecurity zones meet an industry standard and that appropriate steps have been taken to minimise the risk of introduction of serious pathogens into the production environment.

This course has been developed to support accreditation under the NIASA Banana Nursery Stock Specification - primarily, accreditation under PART A - Sourcing or collection of material for tissue culture initiation.