A new variety of highly productive banana plants will be distributed to farmers starting next month in a bid to improve banana production and fight disease in one of the priority crops in the country. The move, under the government's seven year programme which will come to an end in …
Off the Ukkadam – Sundakkamuthur Road, about a km away, in the midst of banana farms lie three or four thatched roofed temporary structures. At first sight they appear to be houses or sheds for watchmen. But they are not. They are not even mushroom cultivation farms, as a board …
Petitioner seeks debt relief for farmers A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court issued notice to the Centre and State governments on a public interest writ petition seeking a directive to take steps to save the farmers in Wayanad from debt-trap and to prevent them from committing suicide. The …
GUWAHATI, Oct 28 – People should find an effective alternative to banana plants as lamp posts during the Diwali, or else, it will continue to incur loss of crores of rupees every year. This is the observation made by Dr NK Mohan, a former Chief Scientist of the Assam Agricultural …
Due to the floods, 80 percent of banana, dates, chilli, sugar cane and especially cotton crop (equivalent of 2.3 million bales destroyed), and a total of 690,000 houses have been destroyed. In order to apprise representatives of media about the current situation in the flood affected areas and initiatives of …
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA), which issues the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on any development project in the country, is unaware that more than 60,000 acres of virgin forest land have been cleared by a US based multi- national company for banana cultivation in SriLanka. A group of environmental …
BANANA peels may be notorious for causing slips in daily lives, but they can also prevent harmful chemicals from slipping into the body. Scientists from Brazil have found that the peel of the fruit can act as a filtration medium and pull heavy metals from water. Metals such as lead …
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports.
IT’S yellow, sweet, large, uniformly sized and firmly textured. For almost everyone the Cavendish variety is the banana. But it was not so until the 1950s when a fungus knocked out its predecessor, Gros Michel, the sweetest variety known so far. The Cavendish, once a littleknown Vietnamese variety, successfully resisted …
Rs 20-lakh project to encourage cultivation of jasmine, betel leaves and banana with GI tags Brand crops Special varieties of jasmine, betel leaves and banana grown in Mysore region. dh photoThe Horticulture Department has initiated measures to boost cultivation of
Rs. 2.05 crore allotted for banana plantation A sum of Rs.3.5 lakh allotted to raise medicinal plants Two vermin-compost yards given a subsidy of Rs.30,000 Nagercoil: The Government had been implementing National Horticulture Mission Scheme, Micro Irrigation Scheme and Integrated Horticulture Scheme for the benefit of farmers in different parts …
AHMEDABAD: Bananas you eat every morning before hitting the gym or offer to your child as a good source of calcium to build bones and teeth may be laced with harmful chemicals. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday sealed nine godowns in Viratnagar, Naroda with 250 tons of bananas after …
LUCKNOW: In what could come as a major relief to banana traders in the state, the Centre has finally cleared the air on which chemicals qualify as `safe' for artificially ripening bananas. With this, nearly 1,800 tonnes of bananas could find safe passage into the state every day. In Lucknow …
On the outskirts of Kathmandu, Siddhipur village has rediscovered the value of urine. More than 100 toilets in the village divert urine to farms, where it is used as fertilizer. It is not a new practice, though. The village was recycling urine before modern fertilizers were introduced. “In the past, …
Banana serves as an ideal and low cost food source for developing countries where most of the population rely mostly on bananas for food. Banana plant parts are useful as insecticide, antioxidant, colour absorber, in preparation of various functional foods, wine, alcohol, biogas, cattle feed etc. This review discusses usefulness …
For quite sometime now, Goa has been witnessing artificial ripening of bananas posing health hazard to the consumer. Hopefully this will be thing of the past, to a great extent, as the Goa State Horticultural Corporation has plans to set up state-of-the-art ripening facility.
Use of high-capacity pumps for irrigation is lowering the groundwater table across the country to dangerous levels, says BHAVDEEP KANG IN THE Burhanpur district of central India, wealthy banana farmers draw water from depths of 700 to 800 feet, or lay individual pipelines 2-3 km long to irrigate their fields. …
Kolar (Jagraon): Banana was once considered an unviable crop in Punjab due to its climatic requirements. But that was in days of yore. Today, banana cultivation is spread over not less than 250 acres in the state. Though a high value crop, it was not being grown in Punjab till …
This study analysed genomic variation of the translation elongation factor 1α (TEF-1α) and the intergenic spacer region (IGS) of the nuclear ribosomal operon of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) isolates, from different banana production areas, representing strains within the known races, comprising 20 vegetative compatibility groups (VCG). Based on …
