Mangaluru: A farmer from Dakshina Kannada District has a kind of mini-world in 25 hectares in Belthangady Taluk and the latest additions are blue Javanese bananas or banana ice cream because they are called.
Over the past 15 years, annealing has fostered more than 700 tropical fruits varieties in the land in Balanja, near Mastervayakere, and most of them come from Central or South America, Europe or Southeast Asia.
The 37-year-old said it, maybe, for the first time a farmer in Karnataka has developed a popular Javanese banana in Southeast Asia.
“Various bananas took the internet with a storm about five months ago when someone talked about it in detail and revealed it really felt like vanilla ice cream,” he said.
Anil says these bananas are cream and blue skin.
“It is planted in a bag to protect the plant from being infected.
Therefore, the fruits are limited by around 50.
I have spent RS 21,000, including transportation, to get a cultured factory from Thailand during my visit to an exhibition two years ago.
We are now Has 10 plants from this variety, “Antil said.
He sells plants to nursery throughout India.
“We have so far succeeded in growing Edulis (also called ice cream seeds), original South America.
We harvest almost 1.5 quintals Japan, various GAC fruits, fruit jam, rollinia deliciosa and so on, “he said.
Working on a fruit garden under Wayanil has begun to work to develop a unique fruit garden for academic purposes at six hectares of land.
“Because it is interesting, I have conducted a study of fruits and interacts with farmers throughout the world.
The focus is to plant fruits from Southeast Asia and those who are in accordance with our climate conditions.
For farmers, along with traditional commercial plants that grow like Areca , it’s important to grow various fruits that have a good market and support livelihoods, “he added.