RATOONING AND BUNCH SPRAY OF GA3 AND BA ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF BANANA

Banana is an important tropical fruit crop worldwide. Banana a member of genus Musa, family Musaceae is one of the most important fruit crop grown in the world in the context of nutritional point of view. Owing to its greater socio-economic significance, multi faced and virtues of plant it is rightly referred as Apple of Paradise, Adam's Fig, Kalpataru and Kalpavriksha. Banana is the most nourishing fruit, contains vitamins, minerals and several medicinal properties and it is rich source of energy, low in protein, fat contents provide a balance diet Farmers are well adopted the fresh plantation but ratooning of banana reduce the cost of cultivation and bunch spray of GA3 and BA improves the quality of banana fruits.