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This video gives a full account of the similarities and differences between plantain farming and banana farming.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRx1krw6dY?si=fhKA0yXZs6R9Z-xu

Lawalsquared:
This video gives a full account of the similarities and differences between plantain farming and banana farming.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRx1krw6dY?si=fhKA0yXZs6R9Z-xu

You are wrong in some of the things you said in your video.

There are major difference between plantain and banana that you did not also talk about.

Banana bears more suckers than plantain, you said plantain bears more suckers. Infact one of the ways to identify a banana stand in the wild is to look at how crowded the stands are. Banana stands become more crowded than plantain stands if suckers are not removed.

2. Bananas are more weedy than plantain, so banana compete more with weeds than plantain. If you leave a plantain farm unattended, weeds will destroy the farm and the numbers of plantain in the farm will reduce drastically. However, if you leave a banana farm unattended, it will outcompete weeds and continue to thrive in large numbers, however the numbers of suckers per stand will increase so much that the bunch yield per sucker becomes very small due to competition between the banana plants.

3. When left unattended, Bananas do not die out while plantains die out after a few years.

4. Banana is easier to grow in places with high weed pressure when compared to plantain.

There are bananas I stopped maintaining 6 years because the variety is not ok for me, they are still in the farm doing well without any care, whereas my plantains needs active weed management to survive.

5. Plantain leaves and leaf stalk are yellowish green while banana leaves and leaf stalk are whitish green. This is the easiest way to distinguish plantain from banana if you know what to look for.

6. You can use unripe banana for many of the things that you use plantain for. You can turn it into banana chips just like plantain chips, you can also turn it into banana flour just like plantain flour.

Earthstorms:
You are wrong in some of the things you said in your video.

There are major difference between plantain and banana that you did not also talk about.

Banana bears more suckers than plantain, you said plantain bears more suckers. Infact one of the ways to identify a banana stand in the wild is to look at how crowded the stands are. Banana stands become more crowded than plantain stands if suckers are not removed.

2. Bananas are more weedy than plantain, so banana compete more with weeds than plantain. If you leave a plantain farm unattended, weeds will destroy the farm and the numbers of plantain in the farm will reduce drastically. However, if you leave a banana farm unattended, it will outcompete weeds and continue to thrive in large numbers, however the numbers of suckers per stand will increase so much that the bunch yield per sucker becomes very small due to competition between the banana plants.

3. When left unattended, Bananas do not die out while plantains die out after a few years.

4. Banana is easier to grow in places with high weed pressure when compared to plantain.

There are bananas I stopped maintaining 6 years because the variety is not ok for me, they are still in the farm doing well without any care, whereas my plantains needs active weed management to survive.

5. Plantain leaves and leaf stalk are yellowish green while banana leaves and leaf stalk are whitish green. This is the easiest way to distinguish plantain from banana if you know what to look for.

6. You can use unripe banana for many of the things that you use plantain for. You can turn it into banana chips just like plantain chips, you can also turn it into banana flour just like plantain flour.

Deep insights.