Practice Name:

Improving the Quality of Banana Fruits

Details

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.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Sam Daniel
District	Kollankaduvetty
KVK District	ICAR-KVK, Pechiparai, Kanyakumari District-629161
Address	Kodiyur, taluka – Kollankaduvetty, district - Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
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
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)
Practice ID	KNW0010000000810
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/121
Reference	HBN database
Technology Transfer Terms	DIY

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