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Description
( Banana )
There are about 1200 varieties of Banana. More than 100
countries produce banana.
Several million people depend on the international
banana trade for their livelihood.
India and Brazil are two biggest banana producing
countries. Consumer demand high quality of food they
consume and they are interested in the taste, appearance
or shape of bananas. Food safety has become a very
significant issue. Consumers want to be informed about
the food they are consuming through appropriate labeling
and authorization.
There is increasing concern for supplying virus free
tissue planting material for quality production of
banana in view of a large number of tissue culture units
that have come up.
The use of hi-tech interventions like micro-irrigation,
mulching, high density planting has been responsible for
achieving high productivity levels in different parts of
India, which would be promoted in potential banana
growing belts.
The available technology and infrastructure would be
pooled for promoting precision farming for achieving
increased productivity per unit with judicious
utilisation of available resources like land, water,
light, fertilizer and time.
National Horticulture Mission has been launched recently
to promote the development of horticulture including
banana. The Mission envisages backward and forward
linkages.
For value addition, government is providing incentives
to entrepreneurs for setting up of horticulture
processing industries and food parks in potential areas
to encourage linkages between the markets for the
horticulture produce and processing industry through
various government schemes.
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