Banana plantation
[3] Physical plants on banana plantations, aside from growing fields, may include facilities or machinery for plant propagation, cultivation, labor housing, fertilization and pest mitigation, harvesting assists such as tractors or overhead cable systems, washing tanks, storage buildings, boxing or bagging, shipping docks, offices, public relations/tourism, and general maintenance.
Intensive agricultural technique, which requires clearing almost all native vegetation from tracts of land, then densely planting and fertilizing the crop, may produce the highest yield of fruit per acre.
Because of the lower per-acre crop yield and higher wage cost intrinsic to this type of farming, profitability is addressed by the introduction of a price premium charged for the product at market.
[14] According to the United Nations, "no information is available regarding how many hectares are currently under conversion or how many producers are planning to convert to organic production methods.
However, most of the strategies require higher initial investment and/or take longer time to restore due to which farmers are unable to generate income as before.
However, while planting in flood prone area and sand deposited soil, regular management practice should be slightly amended.
If sand deposition is above 0.5 m and the area gets inundate for longer duration (more than 2–3 days) during monsoon, then such site should not be considered for banana plantation.
In Nepal, people usually grow malbhog variety of banana in the areas which are prone to annual flood but are not inundate for longer than three days.
The pit is filled with mixture of topsoil and farmyard manure at a 1:1 ratio and sucker is planted at 0.5 to 0.75 m depth depending upon the height of sand above original ground level.
For good harvest, crop management strategy should be contextualized based on the soil type, topography, climate and availability and affordability of inputs.
Certain aboriginal clanships benefited from early development of intensive banana cultivation by expanding previously territorial land views into concepts of cooperative inter-clan trading relationships.
[22] Workers on banana plantations in Central America have been exposed to pesticides which have been found to cause various health conditions including sterility.
One successful lawsuit presented evidence that Dole continued to use the pesticide DBCP on banana plantations in Nicaragua after the agent was found by the manufacturer to cause health problems and was banned in California in 1977.
Financial liability in the case was later stricken because of international jurisdiction issues, however the finding of culpability by the jury was left intact.
[26] In Sub-Saharan Africa, banana plantations have had a tradition of utilizing child labor that dates to the 19th century and thrives in modern times.
