Practice Name:

Desuckering Banana Plants

Details
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 banana crop, three to four months after sowing, the sucker (lateral shoot which emerges from primary roots of the plant) 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 again and again from the same place hence it requires lots of labour and continuous care to check its growth. About eight to ten desuckering operations are required during the whole crop life. Farmers have devised very interesting method to curtail the re-occurrence of suckers. They cut each sucker from the ground level and make one to two inch deep hole by inserting a pointed iron stake on the open cut surface from where 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 save labour cost and time.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Pursottambhai Khetabhai Patel
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	Two experiments using banana (Musa sp.) cultivar Kibuzi were established to determine the effect of plant spacing, height of suckers at removal and method of desuckering on growth, bunch weight and yield. In the first experiment, cultivar Kibuzi was planted at recommended spacing of 3 x 3 m. Two suckers per stool were maintained and extra suckers were removed at heights of 300 mm, 500 mm and 1000 mm by digging them out or cutting the suckers at soil level. In the second experiment, cultivar Kibuzi was planted at spacings of 2.5 x 2.5, 3 x 3 and 3.75 x 3.75 cm giving plant populations of 1600, 1111 and 711 stools ha-1, respectively. Plant height, pseudostem girth, both at 50 and 100 cm, and total number of standing leaves were significantly (P< 0.05) increased by desuckering at 300 mm while the method of desuckering had no significant effect on these growth parameters. Yield parameters were also significantly (P<0.05) influenced by stage of desuckering. The results also indicated that plant spacing and number of suckers retained per stool have no significant effect on height and pseudostem girth of the plant crop of bananas. - https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/21658/cs99025.html
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/819
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	387411