"Treasure Island Banana" fruit
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Promoting and Releasing the Main Technologies of Agricultural Leading Varieties in 2024", promoting and releasing 150 agricultural leading varieties, 150 main technologies and 10 major leading technologies. Among them, the Fusarium wilt-resistant variety "Baodao Banana" and the "Key Cultivation Technology of Banana Fusarium Fusarium Resistance Variety" led by the Institute of Tropical Crop Variety Resources of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences were selected as the leading varieties and main technologies, respectively.
"Treasure Island Banana" orchard
"Baodao banana" is a banana wilt resistant variety bred from the tissue culture mutant offspring of Taiwan's "New Taipei Banana", the variety has a neat fruit comb, uniform fruit bunch from beginning to end, green peel, golden yellow after ripening, light yellow flesh, edible rate of more than 65%, delicate taste, moderate sweetness and fragrance, good flavor, long shelf life, good storage resistance. In Hainan, the growth cycle is generally 330-360 days, and the yield of high-yield banana orchards per plant is 30-35kg, and can reach about 72,000kg per hectare, with excellent comprehensive quality. It is suitable for planting in Taiwan, Hainan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Southeast Asia. This variety has been selected as the leading variety of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for two consecutive years (2023 and 2024). At present, the domestic planting area is more than 500,000 mu, and the cumulative promotion area is more than 1.3 million mu.
Key cultivation techniques for banana wilt-resistant varieties (photo provided by the interviewee)
In view of the problems of long growth period, unclear nutritional law and easy outcropping of banana wilt resistant varieties, on the basis of the comprehensive prevention and control technology of Fusarium wilt resistance varieties of "soil improvement + nematode extermination + less soil moving + balanced fertilization", a nutrient synchronous supply scheme with the synchronization of fertilizer supply and crop nutrient demand was developed and established, and a nutrient synchronous supply scheme was developed and established to overcome the phenomenon of easy outcropping and uneven position of banana during long-term planting. Directional low-level secondary bud retention method". This technology realizes the coordinated development of improved varieties and methods and production ecology in banana production. It effectively solves the problems of the continuous spread of Fusarium wilt in banana planting areas in mainland China, the continuous decline of soil organic matter content and pH, the decline of fruit quality, and the low production efficiency, promotes the increase of production and income of growers, and provides strong technical support for the sustainable development of the banana industry.