Tiruchirapalli Productivity Council (TPC) is launching a special initiative towards the establishment of a cluster of enterprises on banana products/processing and value addition.Banana is the most important fruit crop in India having great socio-economic significance. Banana contributes 31 per cent of the total fruit production in India.The total area under banana cultivation in Tamil Nadu is 83,308...
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Diversification is the buzzword for progressive farmers in Punjab, and banana farming, which started in 2006, is now emerging as a 'viable' and alternate form of farming in the State.Banana farming has become popular among Punjabi farmers, while many private firms have also shown keen interest in the contract farming of bananas.Its cultivation, which started in 10-acres in 2006, has already crossed...
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Diversification is the buzzword for progressive farmers in Punjab, and banana farming, which started in 2006, is now emerging as a 'viable' and alternate form of farming in the State.Banana farming has become popular among Punjabi farmers, while many private firms have also shown keen interest in the contract farming of bananas.Its cultivation, which started in 10-acres in 2006, has already crossed...
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Diversification is the buzzword for progressive farmers in Punjab, and banana farming, which started in 2006, is now emerging as a 'viable' and alternate form of farming in the State.Banana farming has become popular among Punjabi farmers, while many private firms have also shown keen interest in the contract farming of bananas.Its cultivation, which started in 10-acres in 2006, has already crossed...
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retailers interested in buying, growing to save cost of transporting from Gujarat, MaharashtraIt's bananas are ‘king-sized’ and earn growers sweet profits – between Rs 1.10 lakh to Rs 1.50 lakh per acre -- in a state that now aims to cultivate half the bananas it gorges on in a year.Bad news for Gujarat and Maharashtra as till now they used to send all the Bananas the country’s largest consumer of...
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Commission.Bananas Foster consists of bananas sautéed in butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and banana liqueur, then flamed in rum. Served over vanilla ice cream. “Scandalously delicious” is how Brennan describes it, where it takes pride of place among the restaurant’s desserts.Republication...
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Venkatasamy (right) with his first bumper harvest of Grand Naine variety banana through tissue culture. –HOSUR: A farmer produced a record harvest of banana through tissue culture in Onnalvadi near Hosur.B. Venkatasamy, a farmer for for many years was attracted towards banana cultivation through tissue cultur. He was asked to cultivate Grand Naine variety which is wilt resistant and export oriented...
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the backdrop of banana cultivation being undertaken in vast swathes in Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Dindigul, Karur and Perambalur, the Tiruchi Productivity Council (TPC) has roped in the National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) here to materialise a long-pending proposal for establishment of a banana-based industrial cluster for the region.At its first consultative meeting convened on Sunday to discuss the...
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London, Nov 18 /--/ The world's longest-running trade dispute, involving bananas, may end this week with signing of an agreement between officials from European Union and Latin America, a report said. The dispute started in 1993 with the EU granting preferential access to banana exporters from the former British and French colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific -- a move that Latin American...
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From the heartland of the Green Revolution comes a new evolution. The granary state of Punjab known for its prosperous wheat farmers is set to transform into a banana state, after the unqualified success of a small experiment with the fruit.A state which consumes Rs 600 cr worth of bananas a year — among the highest in the country — most of it brought in from Gujarat and Maharashtra, Punjab is set...
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