MLT (VI) of Banana selections/Introduced hybrid (a) Anand Vaaman
Research Type
AICRP Trials
Experiment Background
To grow short stature and early maturing banana variety Gujarat Banana 1 (Anand Vaman) which gave 70.16 t/ha fruit yield, which is 93.4 per cent higher than check Nendran. This genotype produced 215.9 kg fruits per ha per day, which is 123.3 and 8.9 per cent higher than checks Nendran and Grand Naine, respectively. The proposed genotype has dwarf plant height having very short pseudostem length (1.53 m) as compared to checks Grand Naine (2.02 m) and Nendran (2.38 m). This will help to reduce the cost of propping and may withstand under high wind velocity conditions resulting less damage to the crop in this proposed genotype.