Sucker treatment

• Select healthy, disease and insect free suckers
• Dip suckers in cow dung + ash slurry containing neem oil 5% to control rhizome weevil

Manurial practices at planting

• Neem cake @1 kg/plant
• FYM @ 10 kg/plant+10 g Azospirillum

Plant protection

• To control pseudostem weevil uniform spray of neem seed oil 5% + garlic to the leaf axils and pseudostem during third and fourth month after planting
• Lime 500g /plant
• Sow green manure seeds around the banana sucker.
• Pseudomonas flurescens spray @ 2% at two month after planting

Nutrient recommendation

Any of the following combinations of organic manures can be applied as two splits (planting and 3 MAP)
• FYM 28 kg/plant+ash 4kg/plant - best treatment
• Poultry manure 14 kg/plant+ash 4 kg/ plant
• Coir pith compost 10 kg/plant+ash 5 kg/ plant
• Vermicompost 10 kg/plant+ash 4 kg/plant