Banana

Banana

Banana (Musa sp.) is a significant fruit crop known for its year-round availability, affordability, taste, and nutritional and medicinal value, making it a favorite among people of all backgrounds

It also has strong export potential. A tropical crop, bananas thrive in temperatures ranging from 15 ºC to 35 ºC with relative humidity between 75% and 85% .

They grow best in tropical, humid lowlands and require a high amount of nutrients. Bananas are among the most important food crops globally.

The Role of Elements

Potassium (K)

  • Increases the number and weight of hands per bunch, boosting yield.
  • Produces strong successors with high yields.
  • Enhances frost resistance, particularly during winter months.
  • Promotes early banana bunch emergence and early yield maturity.
  • Improves efficiency of irrigation and fertilization.
  • Enhances plant resistance to diseases and adverse environmental stresses, especially increased soil and irrigation water salinity.
The Role of Elements

Phosphorus (P)

  • Improves growth and root distribution.
  • Increases vegetative growth rate and number of leaves.
  • Increase flowering, number of hands and fingers per bunch.
  • Increase quality characteristics of the crop.

Calcium (Ca)

  • Enhances plant resistance to environmental stress factors, especially frost that occurs in winter.
  • Promotes root growth, distribution, and vegetative growth.
  • Increases resistance of root hairs to soil diseases like nematodes and root rot.
  • Increases yield, bunch weight, number of hands, and finger weight.
  • Improves fruit storage ability.
  • Increases fruit resistance to fungal diseases.

Deficiency Symptoms

Potassium (K)

  • Poor vegetative growth.
  • Reduced number of hands and weight per bunch.
  • Low number of fingers and poor quality on hands.
  • Weak successors with low production.
  • Increased susceptibility to viral, fungal, and insect diseases.
Deficiency Symptoms

Phosphorus (P)

  • Reduces the number of leaves and small plant size.
  • Limited root distribution.
  • Lower crop quality specifications.
  • Decreases the number of fingers and hands per bunch, leading to low yield.

Calcium (Ca)

  • General weakness of plants with decreased crop quantity and quality of fruits.
  • Reduced resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions.
  • Inhibition of meristem cell growth and shoot tip development.
  • Leaf tips curl into a hook shape.
  • Appearance of diseases such as nematodes and root rot on roots.