{"id":1688,"date":"2025-01-03T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:42:50","slug":"banana-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/banana-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Banana:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is basically a <strong>tropical crop<\/strong> and the second most important fruit crop in India next to mango.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Required Climatic Condition<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> It grows well in a temperature range of 15\u00baC \u2013 35\u00baC with relative humidity of 75-85%.<\/li>\n<li>It prefers tropical humid lowlands and is grown from the sea level to an elevation of 2000m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> Deep, <strong>rich loamy soil<\/strong> with pH between 6.5 -7.5 is most preferred for banana cultivation. Soil for banana should have good drainage, adequate fertility and moisture. <strong>Saline solid, calcareous soils are not suitable<\/strong> for banana cultivation.<\/li>\n<li>In India this crop is being cultivated in climate ranging from humid tropical to dry mild subtropics through selection of appropriate varieties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Varieties cultivated in India<\/strong> : Dwarf Cavendish, Robusta, Monthan, Poovan, Nendran, Red banana, Nyali, Safed Velchi, Basrai, Ardhapuri, Rasthali, Karpurvalli, Karthali and Grand Naine etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Producing states<\/strong>: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)?<\/h3>\n<p>APEDA was established by the Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act of 1985. It works under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/india-targets-1-billion-banana-exports-as-sea-route-trial-proves-successful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DDNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), India has achieved a tenfold increase in banana exports over the past decade and aims to reach $1 billion in exports within the next five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,65,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-1688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-banana-cultivation","9":"tag-prelims-articles","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}