Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Improving the Quality of Banana Fruits
| Details | |
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| Category | Crop Pest & Disease Management |
| Crop | Banana |
| Crop Family | Musaceae |
| Scientific Name | (Musa paradisica) |
| Vernacular Name | Kela |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Ash, water, urea solution, polythene bag, algae found in ponds and a banana leaf sheath. . |
| Details of Innovation | During the phase of bunch development in banana, after 10 days of formation of fingerlings or tender fruits, the flower cone is removed. A polythene bag is filled with 50 grams of ash mixed with 100 millilitres of a solution of water and urea. This bag is hung at the tip of the bunch to prevent the plant oozing sap. This improves the growth of the bananas, ensuring larger sized fruits. After one month of fruit development, farmers apply an algae, which grows in ponds, over the entire bunch and cover it with a banana leaf sheath. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Sam Daniel |
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| District | Kollankaduvetty |
| KVK District | ICAR-KVK, Pechiparai, Kanyakumari District-629161 |
| Address | Kodiyur, taluka – Kollankaduvetty, district - Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code | 635851 |
| PAS_1 | "Control of Papaya Fruits Anthracnose by Essential Oil of Ricinuscommunis César Luis SiqueiraJúnior, Maria das Graças Machado Freire, AntônioSérgioNascimento Moreira and Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo.(2012). Control of Papaya Fruits Anthracnose by Essential Oil of Ricinuscommunis.Braz. Arch. Biol. Technol. v.55 n.1: pp. 75-80, Jan/Feb 2012. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224873581_Control_of_Papaya_Fruits_Anthracnose_by_Essential_Oil_of_Ricinus_communis |
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| PAS_2 | "The seedlings which appear before blossoming are destroyed. Only those which come after the 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 |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Eastern Ghats And Tamil Nadu Uplands And Dry Region (8.1) |
| Other Community Practices | |
| Practice ID | KNW0010000000810 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/121 |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code | 635851 |