Banana plantations in China

BANANAS • CHINA • PLANTATION

Says Sergey Anashkevich: "It would seem, what's the relationship between the regatta and banana plantations? In fact, none at all ...

It just so happened that during the filming of the race I have formed one free day in which I, without thinking twice, ride to left inside the island, and there's just a whole day went on foot, visiting the various plantations in peasant villages, rural schools, temples and many other incredibly interesting places.

Wandered along the way I and the banana plantations ... "

1. ... and it happened, as often happens, quite by chance.

A particular movement plan for a totally unfamiliar place was not just pulled into the taxi "deeper", according to the map, and went further by GPS, looking for something interesting.

So accidentally came across an abandoned plantation Pandanaceae (of which tell you another time), and behind it, across the stream, I saw a banana ...

 2. Interestingly, there, the creek, the road running through Pandanaceae plantation - ground, and here, on a banana - with paved.

Apparently, as the crops are bananas are important. At the entrance to the "banana paradise" - concrete hut, which was completely empty. I have not met anybody on most plantations ...

 3. Bananas look here is not such as we used to see them in our stores. Here fruits have a square cross-section, rather than circular.

They grow on low trees downright huge heavy bunches.

 4. itself is a bunch, in fact, a huge flower at the base of which begin to form fruit. The flower grows down on the long sveshivayas hobotoobraznom process.

At some point, the formation of the fruit flower cut off most about the bunch. If you do not, it will consume a lot of nutrients from the tree and the fruit will not gain the necessary volume and will not have the necessary consumer properties.

 5. It looks like a full-blown flower of the banana.

 6. Once the flower cut down fruit for some time developing, gaining weight and volume, and then ...

 7. ... they put a huge plastic bag.

He needed to ripening fruit on did not get a drop of rain and dew did not sit down, otherwise spoiled bananas before they will cut off.

8. So they grow up in plastic bags eleven weeks. To full ripeness of bananas is not adjusted because they were being taken away in different parts of the world, to the same fruit in transit and even shrink.

9. Interestingly, not all the trees here grow bananas evenly. Somewhere they are under sacks, somewhere else only gaining volume, but somewhere just maturing flower ...

10. And then, for a banana plantation, plantation begins mango.

And here is exactly the same story with the degree of maturity of the fruit. On some trees, they are small and only just beginning to emerge in the usual form, on some almost ripe, and some of their just collected.

The thing is that the climate here in Hainan, such that many cultures fruit almost in a continuous loop without interruption for the winter season and ...