Organic farming is gaining ground every day. People have come up with an innovative idea in rural agriculture development that can help for attaining both the objectives of organic food as well as provide irrigation for farmers: Using banana tree trunks for the purpose of growing veggies even when the dry season is on. In fact, banana stems have been known for a long period of time, even to farmers for having a good water retention capacity. No wonder, a few farmers have gone ahead to use the banana stems for planting short root crops inside the stems.
Banana Tree Trunks known for Water Retention: Innovations in Organic Farming
This is achieved through digging small holes in the banana stem with the help of a sharp object like a knife. Add a little soil and feel free to plant as required. These primarily allow plant growth even when dry periods are on without the use of proper irrigation facilities. Such kind of planting is also known for helping in minimizing space as well as resources. This is also affordable because banana stems are easily available to farmers and they can be excellent devices for organic farming, particularly when there is scarcity of space. Learn the tricks of Organic Farming for better crops yields as well as safe agricultural products.
Due to the water retention capacity, there is one more way in which they can be used beneficially: banana stems after they are rotten can be used as fertilizers and manures. Such an innovation also works while they are being used even in plantation crops. It is, however, important to chop these into small pieces before they are used as a fertilizer. This helps to ensure that they do not become a hiding place for insects. The wonderful concept can go a long way in ensuring rural independence and can cut away at farmers’ over reliance on monsoons for water.
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Im going to try this and find out what they do with the stocks in Costa Rica 🙂
I will try this at home in Kenya
Please send me the PDF document
My my my!!! A great idea. But could this be used for vegetative propagation of new seedlings like mint and rosemary? Anyway, I will try that aspect, Insha Allah.
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It is an ideal system. Very interesting.
Very informative, like this
Really nice and great idea for organic farming
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Thats a great idea. I am reachable at muqbil.ahmar@gmail.com. Kindly share the details and we will publish.
Very creative
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Surprise.
Amazing let try it cabbage
Hi Muqbil,
I love your work.
We are always looking for environmental stories & technology advancements.
I would love for you to write a story on our Byron Eco Bags. I also have a friend involved in doing great things to clean up the waterways of Bangkok, with the new pod created in association with Terracycle
Thats a great idea. I am reachable at muqbil.ahmar@gmail.com. Kindly share the details and we will publish.
Nice to read that content .I know also I will be in position plan my Owen vegetables in order to earns and also teach the community concerning what I had gone true and tryed practical , thanks to see the next step from u please send me more to my email,
Excellent idea.
Good more updates
Would any fertilizer apply ?
I want to making agricultur.
Very useful for zero waste low cost organic farming.
It’s very good and important Idier so if we need organic Egrichalcharing system to do provide for international society
Good idea to keep many farmers active during dry season, even without access to wetland.
However, can you mention some short cycle crops/veggies suitable for banana beds.
Pls I need to learn more
Appreciate your mindset to control the Global Warming and make the world green, clean & better place.
This is interesting. Please i am interested.
More please!!!
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I am interested to know more
Great idea thank you for sharing, now I know what to do with my banana and plantain stems.
Great idea thank you for sharing, now I know what to do with my banana and plantain stems.
where do I get them if I live in New England?
Good innovation
Good
Innovative indeed
Am trying this out tomorrow
I this is the kind of information I really needed due the limitedness of farming space and soil fertility issues. Thanks
Waoh! This is interesting
Nice work can we this very good in mindsnao
Sir, always send new innovations of farming system
Good innovative
Considering th fact that banana trunk cut from the com decomposes with time,for how long will te stem be used?
I like the idea and would like to try it out at school with the environmental club. This is because our school banana project is doing well.
Thanks so much for these information I will try it as soon as possible
Excellent read. I am a tree farmer in Kenya and this will definately help.
Nice..innovation. I ll try ..
Thank you for showing us tips like this. I will begin it today and will keep you informed with the outcome.
Hi, I do really appreciate what you are doing, I am a campaigner of Natural Habitats, more like Climate Change. I do campaign against people Mistreating Natural Habitats… Fauna and Flora. 1.To Protect and Understand the Lives of Fauna and Flora. 2. To Understands and Work on the Nature’s Expectations. 3. To look through the eyes of the Nature… These are some of my theories that needs to be looked at..
Thank you this is very promising and I love it. Will begin farming right away. God bless you!!!
Thank you for this information but can we use plantain tree trunks too?
Comment…can plantain trunk be used too??
I like the subject that you’re speaking of. But I would love to know more about your work.Shalom
I will try it in my locality
I would love to know more about this organic farming and what type of plants can be planted
This is a wonderful innovation which I would love to try. We have plenty of stems post harvest which could be made use of while decomposing. How do you water the plants?
Wooow! That’s interesting i will try it…
Hallo
My name is nasra ask where kan Get bAnana tree i have small garden In burco
انه مقال مهم جدا وانا شخصيا استفت جيدا من هذا الكلام
Hi can I come look and study how to grow & make in banana tree Organic
You.er dynamic
This is great I love to do the same thing you do your farming
Splendid job would love to try it
What is the process of Banana tree for planting seed and what types of vegetable are planted into it.
I am very happy for this initiatives and innovation. Good information, kooks good
What type of plant we cultivate in this procedure.
Can somebody translate this interesting article in Dutch?
Many thanks
Bonjour c’est avec Intérêt que j’ai lu cette ébauche. Alors pour le faire à grande échelle aussi pour le milieu où la plantation de bananier n’est pas ecologiquement applicable qu’est-ce qu’on ferai. Aussi toutes les cultures de bases sont elles aussi possiblement d’application
Merci pour cette innovation
I am quite interested about this innovation that you posted here. We have a lot of banana trees in our backyard and they just rot after we get the mature fruits. With this information, I’d like to experiment with a few trunks so I’ll appreciate getting more info.
Hello Muqbil,
I am also a climate change activist, and I love the innovation. I am trying organic farming on a small scale basis and always looking for best practices. We have banana stems so can utilize this concept. I hope you answer questions when practitioners hit a wall. I will really like to collaborate in order to replicate your idea on my farm.
Feels like natural low cost hydrophonics. I am working for an climate adaptation project for undp Bangladesh. Would be interested to know more about this.
This is a very good agricultural tip. Save banana plant stem after pruning the underground sucker/roots will grow some more fruit bearing stems.
Can use coconut husks to pot orchids as well – this is a very old practice.
Absolutely a great idea, I have banana trees and I thought it was a waste and what I could do with them, thankyou very much, a HAPPY GARDNER😃
Very,very good Job you are doping.i am impress.
Thank u
Fantastic easy transferable concrpt.My congrats
An enquiry:
How can the land be made productive after a devastation due to volcanic eruptions?
I am talking about the Taal Volcano in the Philippines.
How about if the soil will banish or will not remain inside,so the water of the banana stem will not be poison to the plants??thank you for the response….
The banana is a plant or called suckers. It cannot be called a tree because it does not have the components of a tree.
Interesting….I think I should try this out
Like the idea
I will use this innovation in school
It is an amazong informatipn for me because we have long dry season .Thanks for the info.
What about palm stems ??
How can soil be placed inside the banana stem?
I love it and you’re dynamic
Nice i wanna try it in my country when i go home after retiring .
Very interesting …
Do you have a translation in french language ?
Best regards.
I want to visit such kind of farm , please write the location details
wow
This is Amazing!
Do you have an instruction on how to do it? I have a vacant space at the back of the house that i can utilize for this. Thanks
Rhis article us very iluseful and timely. This is what we need now a days. To live in an organic environment. Thanks
This is a wonderful idea.
Is there possibility to be trained on other organic farming methods by you
Waaaow very much accepted this invention. We do organically growing of summerflowers in 10ha. The quality and life of flowers is just amazing.
what kind of small root plants do u recommend ?
Innovative…great idea!
Good innovation, can it sustain cucumber and fluted pumpkin?
nice Akash bhau
I have a lot of bananas. But wont they got before the vegetables are ripe?
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Excellent
Thankyou for sharing the post.
I want to get your post regularly.
Very innovative idea to farming!
Good day!im so impressed but i have one question … If i plant tomato seedling thus the banana stem can hold until it bear feuit?coz im thinking to plant tomatoes and egplant.
Awesome!!!!
Enlightening
Bahut khubsurat
Pls kindly list the names of the short root crops we can plant in banana stem. Thanks so much for the write up on organic plantain stem planting.
Nice!!
Congratulations!!! Thanks for sharing with me the organic farming new technology
Good initiative sir
Use of banana trunk for cultivation during the dry season is a good idea
Muqbil, thank you for spreading awareness of an innovative and cost-effective concept.
Very interesting. I know how fiber is made from banana stem in some parts of western Nepal. This is more innovative. We grow vegetables in composted saw dust, grass and leaves’ dust and carpentry’s wastes. Thanks
That’s a good innovation I would like to start practicing in Uganda as well
It is fantastic innovation for those Banana farmers with scarcity of water and land. I hope we copy the technology within my community.
Thanks for your effort.
Great. Awesome thinking!!! Keep on
Yes we are progressing
Hlo
nice work
Very good 👍👍 👍👍 technicq
I wish to learn moreorganic farming methods from you
The idea is very good and easy to use even for a lay man in farming, nice one
what kind of plants for this system.
That’s not innovation. That was a practice decades ago
Wow, I like it!
Very nice information and idea useful in farming.. Thanks!
Very nice you’re really resourceful and that’s great
Great article! Great bio! Well done! Please consider including the current mass extinction event & it’s main driver = loss of freshwater habitat…plus the main driver of this = reservoirs and dams (which inhibit or prevent waterflow). Together, we make a difference!
thanks. good article. I will try this method.
Great and good morning. Wondering about brevity and nesecity.
Galing, perfect ano pa ibang pwedeng gawin backyard gardening applying organic system
I am a passionate farmer. Thanks for the tip because is easy to implement. My question is for how long should we leave plants growing on banana stems. Is it until they get rotten or until cultivation period
Good morning sir but can we plant any varieties of seed and how long those it take before harvesting
Great idea
Very good idea. I will do this when i go back to the Philippines
I’ve found this banana story to be very useful and I’d like to learn more about it for the benefit of our rural farming sustenance
Good job
Using banana stems to plant, do we add water and how frequent?
Using banana stems to plant, do we have to add water and how frequent?
Great idea,
I could want to know more.
What a great idea! i will be happy to do it when i get back to Philippines. i have few banana plants in my property there. it will be useful to me now. Thank you for this wonderful idea!
Just read your article and I found it very innovative, encouraging and useful to farmers like me. I have a 3-hectare organic farm of high-value crops in Cavite. The farm is planted with mangoes, coconut, about 2,000 banana (saba variety), sugar palm, bangkok & local santol , pepper and many more. Since we lack the needed capital, we cannot venture growing other in-demand vegetables. Maybe we can try using banana trunks to start growing pechay, lettuce, etc. Thanks for the great idea.
You are doing a great contribution mankind and Earth!Will follow your writings.TQ.
This is beautiful and very inspiring
Sir,
Great Idea
Best substitute for costly and unaffordable hydroponic and sack farming. It may change the scenario of sustainable layman veg cultivation.
Really nice . but Can one also use plantain stem???
Very nice but what about the area banana cultivation is not common?
You inspire me
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Fantastic idea!
This is great. Planning to do this in case I find anyone cutting a banana stem next time.