LAND PREPARATION

Preparation of the field for cultivation

First you have to clean the land.
This includes removing large trees, big roots and stones that will interfere the growth of the plants.

If your land is a flat and well drained one,it is good for tissue culture banana cultivation.
The best soil must be darkly brown color soil rich in decomposed organic matter.
If the soil has excess water, you should dig the drains to remove excess water from the field.
As I mentioned earlier, the plants are very small and not much adapted for the environment
Therefore you should grow fence of plant to stop high wind to avoid wind damages
These are we called as wind breaks

Banana is a sunlight loving plant.
To produce food, banana plants need more sunlight.
Therefore, increasing spacing helps to get sunlight without any barrier.
It will also helpful to maintain desirable height of the plant.
Spacing of this type will ensure the maintenance of the cultivation for 5 years.

Remove first 1/ of surface soil separately.
Then remove next 1/ of deep soil separately.
You have to use 1/ depth of soil to fill the pits. It has more nutrient than other depth
You have to mix organic fertilizer such as compost, cow dung, poultry manure or goat manure with first depth of surface soil.
You can mix them in following rations;

Surface soil 1: poultry manure ½

Surface soil 1: goat manure ½

Surface soil 1: cow dung 1

Surface soil 1: compost 1

Then you have to add that soil mixture to bottom of the pit and fill other half using next bulk of the soil with little height from the ground level.

To avoid rotting the base of the plant.

Then keep the pits for about 14 days.