New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts
Comparison of open-field and protected cultivation of banana (Musa
spp. AAA) in the coastal area of Turkey
H. Gubbuk
M. Pekmezci
Department of Horticulture
Faculty of Agriculture
Akdeniz University
07059 Antalya, Turkey
email: gubbuk@akdeniz.edu.tr
Abstract This study was conducted to determine the
yield and quality of ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ banana (Musa spp. AAA), cultivated
in open fields and also in protected (plastic greenhouse) cultivation. The
site is located in the central south coastal region (altitude 50 m, latitude
36°33´N) of Turkey. In both cultivation systems we determined the
following: pseudostem circumference, pseudostem height, total leaf number,
bunch stalk circumference, days from shooting to harvest, number of hands,
number of fingers, finger circumference, finger length, and bunch weight.
Protected cultivation was found to be better than open-field cultivation
in terms of total production, expressed as the number of hands and fingers
per bunch and bunch weight. Average annual yield under plastic greenhouse
was 53% higher than in the open field (65.5 t/ha compared with 42.8 t/ha).
Keywords banana; cultivation systems; yield parameters
H04013; Online publication date 11 November 2004 Received 2 February 2004;
accepted 2 August 2004
New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2004, Vol. 32:
375-378
0014-0671/04/3204-0375 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand
2004
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