Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Desuckering Banana Plants
| Details | |
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| Category | Crop Production |
| Crop | Banana |
| Crop Family | Musaceae |
| Scientific Name | (Musa paradisica) |
| Vernacular Name | Kela |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | A pointed iron stake and kerosene. |
| Details of Innovation | In a banana crop, three to four months after sowing, the sucker or lateral shoot that emerges from the plant's primary roots starts sprouting near the plant. Since it absorbs nutrients and water from the same root, it hampers the growth and development of the plant and its fruits. Farmers remove the sucker by cutting it as and when it appears. But it regenerates repeatedly from the same place; hence it requires lots of labor and continuous care to check its growth. About eight to ten desuckering operations are required during the whole crop life. Farmers have devised a very interesting method to curtail the re-occurrence of suckers. They cut each sucker from the ground level and make a one to two-inch deep hole by inserting a pointed iron stake on the open cut surface from where the sucker was removed. Then kerosene is poured into it drop by drop. This delays resprouting of the sucker. It takes three months to reappear instead of the normal one month it takes without this treatment. The same practice is followed every time while removing the suckers. Overall, this treatment reduces the number of the desuckering operations to two or three instead of eight to ten and saves labour cost and time. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Pursottambhai Khetabhai Patel |
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| District | Kheda |
| KVK District | KrishiVignan Kendra, Gujarat Vidyapith, Dethli, District:- Kheda Phone No.02694-291252, e-mail:kvkkheda@gmail.com |
| Address | Kheda, Gujarat |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Gujarat |
| PIN Code | 387411 |
| PAS_1 | "Effect of spacing, stage and method of desuckering on bunch size and yield of banana cultivar Kibuzi(AAA-EA)."https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/21658/cs99025.html |
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| PAS_2 | |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain And Kathiawar Peninsula, Semi-Arid Eco-Region (5.2) , Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Gujarat plains and hill region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Agro Climatic zone(GJ-3), North Gujarat Zone GJ-5 |
| Other Community Practices | GROWTH AND YIELD RESPONSES OF BANANA PLANT TO DESUCKERING PRACTICE - https://www.ijset.net/journal/253.pdf |
| Practice ID | KNW0010000000987 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/13 |
| State | Gujarat |
| PIN Code | 387411 |