MY AGRI JOURNEY CONTINUES..... BANANA 🍌EXPERIENCE Took up banana cultivation on 3 acre plot as inter cropping in 1 year old lemon 🍋 plantations ( though it is not a good idea still doing it to compensate the huge loss we made with chillies cultivation on the same plot) We took up chekkrakeli variety which is premium banana in AP market. The drawback with this extremely tasty banana is it’s keeping quality is very low and can not be exported to long distance markets. Banana is 10 months to 1 year crop and for acre 1000 tubers can be planted ( number vary with variety of banana). Cost of cultivation is 1 lakh /acre in which major expenditure is land lease of rs 50000/acre, followed by manure and fertilizers. Pesticides are not used on banana crop. During Sept-Oct banana prices are very attractive and traders were moving around to enter rate contracts. We sold our crop @ Rs 200/ each bunch and took token advance. If the trader can sell around Rs 250 he will reach break even p...