Ghodasgaon Banana, Tal-shirpur, Dist-dhule

Banana cultivation inGhodasgaon, Dhule, Jalgaon district started around 1930. Initially traditional farming methods like flood irrigation, sucker planting etc. were being used to grow banana crops. Grand Nain and Shri manti, Mahalaxmi varieties, Jain Tissue of banana are grow in Ghodasgaon. After successful experimentation, They arranged hundreds of farmer meetings all over Shirpur Talukha to spread awareness about high-tech methods of banana cultivation. they advocated agronomic practices like soil testing, planting tissue culture plants, drip irrigation to conserve water, fertigation which resulted in control of weeds, lower labour cost and increase in per plant yield of banana bunch from 15 kg to nearly 40 kg.