BANANA AND PLANTAIN PRODUCTION IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA
2020
AKINYEMIJU, O. A. | LAOGUN , E. A. | OPABODE, J. T.
A survey was conducted between 2002 and 2004 to assess the status, consumption pattern as well as constraints to banana and plantain cultivation in southwest Nigeria, Field studies were also carried out to evaluate six varieties of plantain and banana for growth and yield potentials at Ile-Ife under no-external input production system during the same period. A sample size of 210 farmers was taken in 21 villages across seven local government areas. The cropping systems practised by farmers who planted banana and plantain were: land rotation (81%), plantation agriculture (9.5%) and riverbank farming (6.7%). Constraints to banana and plantain production in the area were: diseases (l00%), weed (46.7%), animal pest (35%), finance (67.6%), transportation (7.1%), labour (16.2%) and inputs (33.1%). In both the first growth cycle (plant crop) and the second growth cycle (first ratoon crop), Cardaba and BITA 3 banana genotypes showed the most vigorous growth in terms of pseudostem height, pseudostem circumference, leaf area and sucker production and bunch mass while PITA 17 genotype was the least. Cardaba and BITA 3 banana genotypes recorded the best growth and yield potentials in the trials and therefore, recommended for production in the study area.
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