Farmers upbeat about bumper harvest of nendran bananas

Farmers, who person raised nendran banana successful Tiruchi district, are hoping for a bully harvest this twelvemonth acknowledgment to the cleanable season.

Nendran banana constitutes astir one-third of banana cultivation successful the Tiruchi district. It is 1 of the staple nutrient items, chiefly successful Kerala. Since it fetches bully prices, peculiarly astatine markets successful antithetic parts of Kerala, the farmers successful Tiruchi territory similar to rise the crop. The farmers, who ain lands on the banks of the Cauvery and the Kollidam, rise nendran bananas. Availability of groundwater and the assured irrigation sources are cited arsenic the main crushed for farmers to rise nendran bananas though the onshore is highly suitable for paddy cultivation.

According to sources, astir 7,000 hectares were brought nether the banana cultivation during 2025-26. Of this, the nendran harvest is raised connected astir 2,500 hectares. Most of the landholdings successful Andhanallur, Kuzhumani, Pettavaithalai, Manikandam, Mutharasanallur, Jeeyapuram, Adhavathur, Kuzhumani, Kodiyalam, Ettarai, Koppu, Thiruvalarcholai, Thiruvanaikovil, Kavutharasanallur, Kilikoodu, and Panayapuram person been brought nether nendran cultivation.

The farmers, who had completed the plantation of nendran saplings successful January and February, are getting acceptable to commencement the harvest. They anticipation that they volition person a bumper harvest arsenic they did not brushwood large disturbances during the north-east monsoon. Moreover, nary 1 had complained of shortage of h2o for irrigation. “Though a agelong spell of caller rainfall forced america to support our fingers crossed for a while, it did not origin overmuch harm to the lasting crop. The banana bunches look healthy. We volition commencement the harvest shortly,” says S.M. Manohar of Vayalur.

Stating that immoderate farmers, who had brought their landholdings successful January past year, had started harvest, helium said it would summation momentum from February.