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VIRUS IN BANANA AND TURMERIC PLANTS
Extract juice from 10 kg leaves of Bougan villa plant. Add 10 parts of water. Sprinkle. This also makes the plants grow well.
STORING BANANA BUNCH
When Bananas are kept for ripening, they rot sometimes. Extract juice from a handful of Tulsi leaves and add a liter of water. Soak the base stems of the bunches.
ROTTING ROOTS OF PLANTAIN TREES
Dissolve 15 g Asafoetida in a liter of water. Pour at the roots in the sixth month after planting them.
PLANTAIN LEAVES TURNING BLACK AND DRY
Pour Ginger and Garlic water.
CHANGING PLANTAIN TYPES
When a type of Banana is harvested, you can the plant another variety for the next round. This gives more yield.
STIMULATING PLANTAINS’ GROWTH
When Plantains sprout 2 or 3 leaves, mix 300 ml Pancha Gavya with 3 liters of water and pour two or three drops where the leaves start sprouting. They grow faster.
PREPARING SEEDS OF PLANTAIN, GINGER, SUGARCANE AND TURMERIC
- Take Beejamritha in a big, wide vessel. Put these seeds in a Bamboo basket and dip into this liquid. Keep in it for a few minutes, dry and sow.
- Smear cow dung all over the plantain roots while planting them. Plant in the month of Vaikasi (Tamil) on a Friday.
PLANTING SOYABEANS
It can be grown as support crops with Sugarcane, Plantain, Turmeric, Cotton, Sweet Potato, Coconut and Maize. It yields just in 3 months. Its roots absorb Nitrogen from the atmosphere and add it to the soil.
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