Banana Seventeenth to eighteenth week practices

 Application of second dose of fertilizers @ 150:150 g Urea and MOP+ 300g neem cake per plant in the basins made about 45 cm away from the plant.

Removal of dried leaves, digging and weeding is done. At last give irrigation properly but do not flood the banana field.

Bunchy Top: Banana bunchy top virus

Symptom:

• Initially, dark green streaks appears in the veins of lower portion of the leaf midrib and the leaf stem
• They appear to be “bunched” at the top of the plant, the symptom for which this disease is named.
• Severely infected banana plants usually will not fruit, but if fruit is produced, the banana hands and fingers are likely to be distorted and twisted. 
• It is transmitted by infected suckers and banana aphid

MANAGEMENT:

• Use virus free planting materials
• Remove and rouging of infected banana plants
• Maintain clean, weed free field for early detection of infested suckers
• The plants should be injected with 4 ml of Fernoxone  solution(50g in 400 ml of water).
• For vector controls Injection of plants with monocrotophos 4 ml (1:4) at 45 days interval from 3rd month till flowering.
• Spraying plants with phosphomidon 1ml /l or Methyldemeton 2ml/ l or monocrotophos 1ml /l.