The 22nd RAC meeting of the ICAR-NRC for Banana was held in virtual mode on 23-24 July 2021. The meeting was attended by Dr. V.A.Parthasarathy, Chairman, Dr. KV. Bhat, Member, Dr. Rema Menon, Member, Dr.P.Chandran, Member, Dr. S.C.Dubey, Member, Dr.BK.Pandey, ADG(HS), Dr.S.Uma, Member, Shri.B.Maharajan, Member (IMC Rep.), Shri K.Sadanandan, Member (IMC Rep.), Dr.R.Selvarajan, Member Secretary and all the Scientists of NRCB. Dr. S. Uma, Director, welcomed the RAC members and presented a brief report of the research and outreach activities of NRCB since the last RAC. Dr R. Selvarajan, Member-Secretary, presented the report on the action taken on the recommendations of the last RAC meet. Salient research achievements were presented by the scientists. All the members gave their remarks and comments at the end of each presentation. The chairman, in his final concluding remarks listed out the recommendations and advisories that came out of the presentations, discussions during the break out session of each section. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. R.Selvarajan.