YOU SHOULD PREPARE THE LAND LIKE THIS
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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
- Wind split the leaves
- Then reduce the photosynthetic area. It will reduce the yield
- Wind also collapses the plant
- Therefore, you can plant Gliricidia, Sesbania as wind breaks
- You can get additional income from Sesbania used as a leafy vegetable
- Sesbania can get Nitrogen from environment and add Nitrogen to the soil again
- Gliricidia is used as food for animal and also used as a mulch
- Now you should prepare the pits for planting.
- To do this you have to prepare large pits 2' x2'x2'in size.
- You can fill large amount of compost.
- So it will give high nutrition to the plants.
- Root system can easily distribute.
- You have to maintain 10'x10' spacing between two plants and between two plants.
- 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.
- Decompose them and increase the microorganism activities.
- Allow to well set the soil in the pit.
- You should mix the things in the pit again before planting.
