Density of planting on the growth and production of plantain cv. D’Angola in the Chapada do Apodi

Abstract

The work was carried out in the municipality of ‘Limoeiro do Norte’, ‘Ceará’, in the region of ‘Chapada do Apodi’, with the objective of evaluating different population densities of banana plantain in the production and commercial characteristics of fruits. In the experimental design in randomized blocks with four replicates, the population densities of 4,166, 3,125, 2,777 and 2,500 plants per hectare were compared, where distance between rows of 2.0 m was maintained and the distances between plants within the rows respectively, at 1.2 m, 1.4 m, 1.6 m, 1.8 m and 2.0 m, and the control density, at spacing of 3.0 mx 3.0 m, with 1111 plants per hectare. The plots had six useful plants, with the cultivar ‘D'Angola’(AAB). The height of the plant, the diameter of the pseudostem, the number of live leaves, the fresh mass of the bunch, thenumber of leaves and the number of fruits were evaluated at harvest, and in the second hand the mass and number of fruits and, in the fruits, the unit mass, the length and the perimeter. The higher population density of plants provided the greatest productivity, with an increase of 263%, without changing the commercial characteristics of the fruits.