Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Banana Crop Lasts for Years
| Details | |
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| Category | Crop Production |
| Crop | Banana |
| Crop Family | Musaceae |
| Scientific Name | (Musa paradisica) |
| Vernacular Name | Kela |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Organic manure. |
| Details of Innovation | Retain the banana plant after the first harvest. Generally, farmers take only one harvest of bananas and do not allow the plant to grow suckers and remove the main plants after the harvest. A few farmers take a return crop once. It is believed that after one season or two, the yield of fruits is reduced, and so the plant is removed. Farmer has been taking the crop continuously by retaining the plant for the last 20 years. He allows all the healthy suckers to grow and removes the mother plant after two or three harvests. He weeds the crop only two or three times a year and applies organic manure twice a year to his crop, which has been standing in the same field for the last 20 years. Over the years, he has found that the tree produces the highest yield in its second year of harvest, but the yield stabilizes from the third year onwards up to the tenth year when the average yield is around 15 to 20 kilograms. But sometimes, the fruits may be small. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Jayantibhai Bhuvanjibhai Khodiyar |
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| District | Kutch |
| KVK District | Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Vivekanand Research and Training Institute, Mundra, Kachchh |
| Address | Via-Dabada, Anjar, Kutch |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Gujarat |
| PIN Code | 370110 |
| PAS_1 | "The seedlings which appear before blossoming are destroyed. Only those which come after sufficent maturation of the banana bunch are permitted to grow.” https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=7205&page=2&search_case=pest%20control%20banana |
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| PAS_2 | "Good agricultural practices for bananas."http://www.fao.org/world-banana-forum/projects/good-practices/good-agricultural-practices/en/ |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Western Plain, Kachchh And Part Of Kathia (2.2, 2.4) ,Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII) , Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North West Zone (GJ-5) |
| Other Community Practices | "Development and dissemination of improved banana cultivars and management practices in Uganda and Tanzania. "https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=K5ZjyQUI3TYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA37&dq=Improving+the+Quality+of+Banana+Fruits+Community+Practices&ots=sbO2I |
| Practice ID | KNW0010000000896 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/5 |
| State | Gujarat |
| PIN Code | 370110 |