| Botany and
Cultivation |
- Banana
(Farmer's Bookshelf, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Select "Fruits" to access banana production information for Hawai'i
including cultural guidelines and management information.
- Banana:
General Crop Information
(Knowledge Master, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Cultivation of banana with links to Knowledge Master's pages on
diseases and insect pests of
banana.
- Banana
Growing in the Florida Home Landscape (56 Kb PDF file)
(Jonathan H. Crane, Carlos F.
Balerdi, and Ian Maguire, revised September 2005, Florida Cooperative
Extension Service)
General overview of the banana including introduction, history and
distribution, uses, plant description, environmental factors,
soils, propagation, varieties, spacing, planting, fertilization,
irrigation,
cultivation, pruning, harvesting, and disease, insect, and nematode
problems.
- Banana:
Musa x paridasiaca
(Julia F. Morton, Fruits of Warm Climates, 1987)
Covers horticulture of the banana; propagation, culture,
pests, and diseases; also includes harvesting, yield, food uses,
and nutritional value.
- Descriptors
for Banana (411 Kb PDF file)
(International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI))
Desriptors used for documenting and managing genebank accessions.
- Bananas
in Queensland
(Department of Primary Industry Queensland, Australia)
Short reports on all aspects of banana production in Queensland;
cultural practices, pests, and diseases.
- Growing
Bananas in American Samoa (16.4 Mb PDF file - very LARGE file)
Land Grant Technical Report No. 25
(Frank W. Pritchard, 1995, American Samoa Community College, Land Grant
Program)
Covers site preparation, spacing, cultural practices, disease control,
and harvesting.
- Mai'a
(Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii)
Maia (banana), its cultivation, and use in Native Hawaiian culture.
- Organic
Banana 2000: Towards an Organic Banana Initiative in the Caribbean
(1.47 Mb PDF file)
(Compiled by M. Holderness, S. Sharrock, E.
Frison and M. Kairo, 2000, International Plant Genetic Resources
Institute (IPGRI))
Report of the 1999 conference held in the Dominican Republic; reports
on technical constraints, transition support, certification, marketing,
and quality assurance.
- Preparing Tissue-Cultured Banana Plantlets for Field Planting (270
Kb PDF file)
Biotechnology BIO-8
(Eden A. Perez and Cerruti R. Hooks, 2008, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Covers various aspects of moving tissue cultured plantlets to the field
including hardening, potting, transfer and establishment.
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| Diseases and Pests |
- Banana
Bunchy Top Virus (88 Kb PDF file)
Plant Disease PD-12
(Stephan A. Ferreira, Eduardo E. Trujillo, and Desmond Y. Ogata, 1997,
University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Describes the symptoms of the disease caused by BBTV and methods for
control of the aphid vector; includes color photographs of symptoms.
- Banana
Rust Thrips Damage to Banana and Ornamentals in Hawaii (244
Kb PDF file)
Insect Pests IP-10
(Arnold H. Hara, Ronald F.L. Mau, Ronald Heu, Christopher Jacobsen, and
Ruth Niino-Duponte, 2002, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Describes the damage done by banana rust thrips (Chaetanaphothrips
signipennis), its biology, and biological, cultural and
chemical controls; includes color photographs.
- Coconut
Scale (Aspidiotus destructor Signoret) (88
Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-5
(Donald Nafus, University of Guam, 2000, Agricultural Development in
the American Pacific (ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect.
- Green
Scale (Coccus viridis De Lotto) (68 Kb PDF
file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-7
(Donald Nafus, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect.
- Hemispherical
Scale (Saissetia coffeae [Walker]) (64 Kb
PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-8
(Donald Nafus, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect.
- Melon
Alphid (Aphis gossypii [Glover]) (72 Kb
PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-10
(Donald Nafus, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect.
- Musa
spp.: FAO/ IPGRI Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Germplasm
(723 Kb PDF file)
(M. Diekmann and C.A.J. Putter, 2nd edition, 1996, International Plant
Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI))
Provides "crop-specific technical guidelines that provide relevant
information on disease indexing and other procedures that will help
ensure phytosanitary safety when germplasm is moved internationally."
- Report
Document on Diagnosis of Banana, Yam, and Other Diseases in Pohnpei
(1.7 Mb PDF file)
(Scot C. Nelson and Flordeliza B. Javier, 2001, Cooperative Research
and Extension, College of Micronesia - FSM)
Reports on the identification of a fungal disease of banana, yam rust
disease, and phytophthora fruit rot of breadfruit; includes many color
photographs of disease symptoms.
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| Harvest and Processing |
- Estimating
the Per-pound Cost of a Dried or Condensed Food Based on Process Yield
and Farm-gate Price (28 Kb PDF file)
Entrepreneur's Toolbox ET-2
(James R. Hollyer and Alvin S. Huang, 1999, University of Hawaii at
Manoa CTAHR)
Outlines the economics of drying and/or condensing food products;
includes tables to calculate costs based on farm gate price per pound
and yield after processing and refuse, and dehydration percentages for
bananas, coconut, and taro.
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| Marketing and Statistics |
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Guam
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1999
Census of Agriculture - American Samoa
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Information on two categories of banana: "Fai Palagi" and "Other
Varieties." Data for 1990 and 1999; number of farms, number of trees,
pounds harvested for sale and for consumption, and the value in dollars
of the fruit harvested for sale and for consumption; in PDF format.
- Hawaii
Office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service
The Fruits and Nuts page includes the report on
banana production in Hawaii. Annual summary has historical data
going back to 1949; number of farms, acreage in production and
harvested, yield per acre, farm price per pound, and value of sales; an
additional table summarizes U.S. fresh banana imports by country.
- Puerto
Rico Census of Agriculture
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Information on bananas and plantains. Data for 1993 and 1998; number of
farms, number of trees of bearing age, number of trees not of bearing
age, number of cuerdas (approximately the same as acres) in production,
and number harvested; additional tables provide market value
information and detailed information on production by district; in PDF
format.
- Statistics
of Hawaii Agriculture
(Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service)
Data for 1999 through 2003 by county; number of farms, acreage in
production and harvested, yield per acre, farm price per pound, and
value of sales; separate tables provide production, acreage, and farm
price for apple bananas and cavendish bananas; available in both HTML
and PDF formats.
- Virgin
Islands of the United States: 1998 Census of Agriculture - Area Data
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Information for bananas and plantains. Data for 1993 and 1998; number
of farms, hills with trees of bearing age, hills with trees not of
bearing age, and pounds harvested; in PDF format.
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| Reference and Research Tools |
- Free Public Databases
- AGRICOLA:
1970-present
(U.S. National Agricultural Library)
Citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, books, theses,
technical reports, and other publications in agriculture and related
areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
- AGRIS
1975 - present
(FAO)
International database covering agricultural sciences and technology
containing citations for conventional and non-conventional ("grey")
literature.
- PubMed
(Medline) 1966 - present
(U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine
including nutrition.
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