Fruits· Musa × paradisiaca
دليل زراعة Plantain
Plantain is a starchy cooking banana of the Musa AAB cultivar group, eaten boiled, roasted or fried rather than raw, and a staple across West and Central Africa, the Caribbean and parts of Latin America. Botanically it is a cultivar group of the same hybrid species as the dessert banana (Musa acuminata x Musa balbisiana), not a separate species, but it is a distinct crop commercially: it sells into a cooking-staple market rather than a fresh-fruit one, it is reported under its own FAOSTAT item, and it yields well below dessert Cavendish types. The plant is a large perennial herb grown from suckers, cropping in successive ratoon cycles from side shoots after the first bunch.
FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products. Accessed on 13 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
ظروف النمو
متطلبات التربة
نوع التربة ودرجة الحموضة
أفضل أنواع التربة: deep loam, volcanic, alluvial
نطاق درجة الحموضة: 5.5 - 6.5 (الأمثل: 6)
الصرف: excellent
احتياجات المغذيات (N-P-K)
دليل الزراعة
الإنتاجية والاقتصاد
الآفات والأمراض الشائعة
الآفات الشائعة
- banana weevil
- nematodes
الأمراض الشائعة
- black sigatoka
- Panama disease (Fusarium TR4)
- banana bunchy top virus
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نصائح الزراعة
Plantain is not a dessert banana grown differently — it is a cooking staple that sells into a different market and yields well below Cavendish. Plan the economics on cooking-banana prices, not fruit-export prices.
It crops in ratoon cycles: after the first bunch, successive harvests come from side shoots (suckers), so sucker selection and de-suckering drive the yield of every cycle after the first.
Black sigatoka is the defining constraint across most of the plantain belt. Plan for leaf-disease management before planting, not after the first outbreak.
الأسئلة الشائعة
What soil does Plantain need?
Plantain grows best in deep loam, volcanic, alluvial soil with a pH of 5.5-6.5. Excellent drainage is required.
What temperature does Plantain need?
Plantain grows best at 25-35°C. Frost tolerance: none. Heat tolerance: moderate.
What is the expected yield for Plantain?
Across 49 countries with grounded data, reported national yields for Plantain range from 870 to 37,220 kg/hectare, with a median of 10,450. These are national statistics, not a best-case figure — an individual farm's yield depends on variety, climate, soil and management.
How much sun and water does Plantain need?
Plantain thrives with full sun light and very high watering.
مصطلحات زراعية أساسية
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