ENVIORNMENT,AGRICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT

Banana Banana is growing in more than 150 countries and having more than 1000types which subdivided into 50 groups. It is a staple food for many countries and has a greater value in nutritional aspects Kerala is bestowed with many varieties of Banana. My search ends with more than fifty varieties of Bananas including all groups. Here I am finding the evolutionary history of two important crops called Banana and coconut. But both belong to different Genus. It is very difficult to find the traces of similarities to two crops and maybe unnecessary to the academics. The evolution of plants always a fascinating subject to me. I believe the evolution of plants happens from one plant to another. So I studied the following characteristics of two crops. Banana by FAO                   It is a giant herbaceous plant with an apparent trunk that bends without breaking The banana plant is not a tree. The banana has an underground stem with a...

                   Banana                                                 Diversity for life   Many years back, that is in 2010, the above was the slogan of Biodiversity International to protect the plant species across the globe. This slogan is to aware stakeholders all over the world to conserve the genetic diversity to maintain and improve nutrition, livelihoods and the health of our planet-Earth. Farmers maintain more banana varieties than expected earlier. One of the things understood is that different banana variety is conserved at the community level in various regions. The conservation efforts depend on the number of factors like food security, the centre of diversity etc..Diversity of crops adapt to climate change and improve the resilience and productivity of farming systems in the respective reg...