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Banana Farming Tips: If banana cultivation is done scientifically and everything from soil to fertilizer to irrigation is taken care of, then it can prove to be a profitable deal. These tips can be very useful for banana cultivation.
Palamu. In an agricultural country like India, farmers are now increasingly moving towards horticultural crops. Banana is one such crop, which if cultivated properly, can become a gold mine for the farmers. Banana is cultivated on a large scale in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. According to farming experts, if some special things are kept in mind from planting to fruiting, then there can be a big increase in the yield and more profit.
Omkar Nath, a farmer from Jhari village in Palamu district of Jharkhand, is an example of this. When most people saw losses in farming, Omkar Nath filled his land with a profitable crop by adopting scientific banana farming. He told that good and timely fertilization and proper irrigation of plants is the key to successful production.
They plant bananas in a new way at an interval of three years. He said that if farmers follow some important methods, then banana farming can become very profitable.
Palamu district’s agriculture expert Dr. Pramod Kumar told Local 18 that first of all let’s talk about the soil of the field. For banana crop, the pH of the soil should be between 6.5 to 7.5. If the pH is low then it is necessary to add lime to the field 2–3 months before transplantation, due to which the soil becomes good and the plants get proper nutrients. It is very beneficial to apply 40–50 tonnes of well decomposed cow dung manure per hectare in the field before planting.
Apply fertilizer in this manner
Farmer Omkar Nath told that at the time of planting, farmers should mix fixed quantity of farm yard manure, neem cake, carbofuran, single super phosphate and muriate of potash in the pits. This provides initial nutrition to the plant and also protects it from insect diseases. It is necessary to spray nitrogen according to the growth of the plant between 30 to 90 days after transplantation. Also, giving 50 grams of muriate of potash per plant every 60 days and 100 grams of urea every 30–60 days increases the growth of the plant.
what to put in how many days
He said that timely application of fertilizer is important even during flowering. Spraying of zinc and boron along with urea between 90 to 120 days and muriate of potash on the 120th day of transplantation improves both flowering and fruits. Spraying of urea, muriate of potash and potassium nitrate between 150 to 180 days after transplantation improves the quality of the fruit. Finally, spraying potassium between 210 to 320 days and giving fixed quantity of urea-muriate of potash improves both the size, quality and production of fruits.
