**Celestial Challenge Contest**
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The Daily Celestial Challenge contest initiated by @sirknight, In this We have a great opportunity to express the world and got see amazing blogs, Amazing places and gain a lot of information.
**Bananas**
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Bananas are the world's No.4 dietary staple after rice, wheat and corn. A huge number of individuals eat them. They are the most generally eaten natural product in the Assembled States (Americans eat 26 pounds of them a years, contrasted with 16 pounds of apples, the No.2 organic product). All the more critically they are a noteworthy wellspring of sustenance and staple of individuals in tropical regions and the creating scene.
Of the about 80 million tons of bananas delivered far and wide under 20 percent are traded. The rest are eaten locally. There are numerous spots in sub-Sahara Africa where individuals eat bananas and little else. As per Islamic custom the banana is the nourishment of heaven.
Bananas are rich in vitamins A, B, C and G. Despite the fact that they are 75 percent water they likewise contain salt framing minerals, loads of potassium, common sugars, protein and minimal fat. They are anything but difficult to process and the sustenance of decision of numerous expert competitors when they are contending on the grounds that they give snappy vitality and give potassium lost amid work out.
**Banana Plant**
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Bananas originate from a herbaceous plants, not trees, that resemble a palms but rather are not palms. Fit for achieving a stature of 30 feet however for the most part substantially shorter than that, these plants have stalks made of leaves that cover each other like a celery not woody trunks like trees. As the plant develops the leaves grow from the highest point of the plant like a wellspring, spread out and drop downwards like palm fonds.
An average banana plant has 8 to 30 torpedo-formed surrenders that are over to 12 feet long and 2 feet wide. New leaves growing up from he focus of the plant constrain the more established leaves outward, broadening the stalk. At the point when a stalk is completely developed, it is from 8 to 16 inches thick, and sufficiently delicate to be cut with a bread cut.
After the leaves spread out, the banana's actual stem - a green, sinewy expulsion, with a softball-measure maroon bud toward the end - develops. As the stem develops the cone-formed bud at the best overloads it. Petal-like bracts develop between the covering scales encompassing the bud. They fall away, uncovering groups of blossoms. Elliptical natural product rise up out of the base of the blooms. The tips of the organic product develop towards the sun, giving bananas their unmistakable bow shape.
Each plant delivers a solitary stem. Banana groups that develop from the stem are called "hands." Each stem contains six to nine hands. Each hand contains 10 to 20 singular bananas called fingers. Business banana stems produces six or seven hands with 150 to 200 bananas.
**Varieties of Bananas**
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There are more than hundred unique assortments of banana. They have names like Pelipita, Tomola, Red Yade, Poupoulou, and Mbouroukou. Some are long and thin; others are short and squat. Numerous are just tended locally in light of the fact that they wound effortlessly. Rosy bananas, known as palle bananas and red orinocos, are prominent in Africa and the Caribbean. Tiger plantains are dim green with white stripes.
Bananas know as maantoke are eaten crude and cooked in porridge and matured into banana lager in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and different places in sub-Sahara Africa. Africans eat many pounds of these a year. They are such a key wellspring of sustenance that in numerous in Africa mantooke essentially implies nourishment.
The Cavendish is the long, brilliant yellow assortment most normally sold in stores. They have great shading; are uniform in estimate; have a tough skin; and are anything but difficult to peel. Banana fans gripe their taste is dull and sweet. The Gros Michel (implications "Enormous Mike") was the most well-known general store assortment until the point that the 1950s when crops worldwide were wiped out by the Panama malady. The Cavendish was unaffected by the malady and developed as No. 1 send out banana. Be that as it may, it too is defenseless against maladies, It has no seeds or dust and can no be reproduced to enhance it protection. Numerous trust it too will one day be wiped out by an overwhelming sickness.
**Bananas Agriculture**
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Banana plants are developed from rhizomes, underground stems that become sideways instead of down and have foundations of its own. As the plant develops, shoots or suckers create around the first stalk. The plant is pruned so just a single or two plants are permitted to create. These progressively supplant the plants that have borne foods grown from the ground been chopped down. Every rootstock by and large creates one plant each season however keeps delivering plants until the point when it kicks the bucket.
Banana bearer in Uganda The first organic product bearing plant is known as the "mother." Subsequent to collecting, it is chopped down and a plant. called a little girl or ratoon ("supporter"), develops from an indistinguishable roots from the mother. There might be a few little girls. Numerous spots collect the third little girl, furrow and replant another rhizome.
A banana tree can grow 10 feet in four months and prove to be fruitful in as meager as a half year in the wake of planting. Each tree creates just a single banana-delivering stem. In three or a month a solitary green leaf grows from every rootstock. Following nine to ten months the stem at the focal point of the stalk blooms. Before long the blossom twists around and hangs descending. After the petals drop, small bananas are uncovered. At first the bananas point towards the ground. As they develop they turn upwards.
Banana plants require rich soil, nine to a year of daylight and successive overwhelming downpours signifying 80 to 200 inches a year, for the most part more than can be given by water system. Bananas are either spayed with pesticides or wrapped in plastic for insurance from creepy crawlies. Wrapping the organic product likewise keeps it from being wounded by leaves in breezy conditions. The dirt around the bananas should always be cleared of weeds and wilderness development.
Note: @sirknight started a contest and its daily theme's are:
MONDAY - DARKNESS
TUESDAY - ANIMAL~KINGDOM
WEDNESDAY - STRUCTURES
THURSDAY - FORCES~IN~NATURE
FRIDAY - LOVE~BEAUTY~FREEDOM
SATURDAY - AGRICULTURE
SUNDAY - LIGHT