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BANANA COMMODITY PROFILE |
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Industry |
 Banana
is the leading fruit grown in the Philippines and a consistent
top dollar earner. The prospect of Philippine bananas in the
domestic and foreign market is still promising. We have cavendish
and banana chips for export. for local market are lakatan and
latundan.
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| Description |
- Cavendish is grown in plantation
scale in Mindanao
- Lakatan and Latundan are
grown commercially also intended for the Luzon and Visayas markets
- Cardaba is grown mainly for
the banana chips industry
- Balangon or bongolan is grown
organically in Tupi, South Cotabato
- Organic Cavendish is being
grown by the multinational corporations
- Banana grows best at tropical
places with temperatures ranging from 22ºC - 31ºC
- Elevation - can be grown
from sea level up to 100 meters above sea level (Lakatan, Cardaba,
Señorita and Morado)
- Soil - Deep, friable, well
drained with 40% clay, 75% silt and 85% loam, soil pH is 6.5
- Water requirement - average
annual rainfall is 2000-2500 mm or 25mm per week. Water is necessary
on all growth stages. Drain excess water by construction of drainage
canal
- Distance of planting - plants
are spaced at 2.0 x 2.5 meters with 2000 plants per hectare.
Standard distance to minimize Sigatoka infection. For high density
planting - the plants are spaced at 2x3 meters with 2 plants
per hill making 3,200 plants per hectare for Cardaba - 3x4 or
4x4 meters apart
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| Varieties |
- Varieties of banana include:
Cavendish, Latundan, Lakatan, Inarnibal, Amas, Bungulan, Pitogo,
Morado, Inbaniko, Señorita
- Almost 200 variety and strain
of bananas and plantains maintained at the BPI-Genebank. Promising
varieties includes: Saba-Cardaba, Paa Dalaga, Radja, Pelipia,
Katsila, Abujon, Turangkog and Dalian (resistant to BBTV)
- Banana hybrids such as FHIA
1,2 and 3 are highly resistant to SIGATOKA
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| Production |
- World
- Total world banana production
for 2006 reached about 6,713,957,000 MT
- The average world production
was estimated at about 62.7 Million MT per year (FAO). The world
average yield is around 15.6 MT/ha
- Leading banana producers
include: India, Brazil, China and Ecuador, Philippines, Indonesia,
Costa Rica, Mexico
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- Philippines
- National
- Philippines is the 4th top
producer of banana in 2006 and it contributes 9.38% on the world's
total area planted with banana
- Production volume grew by
7.3% during the 1st semester of 2007, 7.8% in 2006 over 2005
- in 2006, Philippines has
an existing production areaof 428,804 hectares that has produced
a volume of 6,794,564 MT
- Cavendish accounts for 41.37%
of all banana produced followed by Cardava at 33.64% and Lakatan
12.3%
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- Luzon
- In 2006, Luzon as an existing
production area of 117,015 hectares broken down as follows: CAR
(4,121 ha); R1 (7,874 ha); R2 (23,325 ha); R3 (6,279 ha); R4A
(30,375 ha); R4B (26,311 ha) and R5 (18,730 ha) (source BAS)
- It has produced a volume
of 823,656 MT broken down as follows: CAR (25,054 MT); R1 (41,950
MT); R2 (350,997 MT); R3 (50,821 MT); R4A (105,520 MT); R4B (185,542
MT); R5 (63,772 MT) (source: BAS)
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- Visayas
- In terms of area, Visayas
contributed around 86,200 hectares broken down as follows: R6
(34, 735 ha); R7 (21,066 ha) and R8 (30,399 ha) (source: BAS)
- In 2006, the total production
of visayas was 709,209 MT which is about 10% of the national
prodcution. R6 (315,970 MT); R7 (163,291 MT) and R8 (229,948
MT) (source:BAS)
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- Mindanao
- In 2006, Mindanao has an
existing production area of 225,589 hectares broken down as follows:
R9 (19,618 ha); R10 (49,228 ha); R11 (73,297 ha); R12 (26,779
ha); R13 (25,793 ha) and ARMM (30,874 ha) (source:BAS)
- Production reached 5,261,698
MT, which is about 83% of the total Philippine production (BAS).
R9 (237,693 Mt); R10 (662,189 MT); R11 (2,945,845 MT); R12 (830,822
MT); R13 (213,155 MT); ARMM (371,994 MT) (source:BAS)
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Last updated: 11
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