Abstract:
A survey was conducted to analyze Banana value chain and to determine postharvest
problems
at farmer and traders level. The survey was conducted during
the periods of August, 2019 to February, 2020 in the Dinajpur district and three
markets as well as 40 retailer shops of Dhaka city. Value chain was analyzed by the
combination of qualitative and quantitative questionnaire methods that included
primary survey focusses group discussions, answering questionnaire and informal
interviews. Value chain analysis clearly revealed that Banana growing areas are
increasing every year gradually and most of the orchards have 250-700 plants and
the popular Banana varieties were Amrita Shagor, Sabri and Champa. Farmers used
manure and fertilizers in Banana orchards in regular basis. All of the farmers were
used to different type activities without maintaining any hygiene to harvest Bananas.
Van and Nosimon are the most common transport for short distance carrying and
Truck for long distant carrying. The common marketing channel is Grower>
Paikar> Bepari> Retailer >Consumer. Lack of modern storage and transport,
processing industries, high margin traders, no use of any packaging system,
transport and production cost, and uncertainty of market price were also reported as
difficulties in value chain of Bananas. Among intermediaries, the highest loss was
recorded for Retailer (23.58%) followed by Piker (1.31%) and Bepari (5.85%). The
highest incidence disease was observed for anthracnose 18.73% and crown rot
8.89% during August to October. The lowest incidence was observed for
anthracnose 2.58% and crown rot 2.08% during November to February. The postharvest
loss
of
Banana
was
found
37.21%
in
total.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
In partial fulfillment of the requirements
For the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
PLANT PATHOLOGY
