Biota del suelo: fortalecimiento mediante la aplicación de tres fuentes de inoculo en el cultivo de banano

Abstract

The banana (Musa x paradisiaca L.) is a tropical fruit of great economic and nutritional magnitude, being marketed worldwide. Ecuador is the country with the largest area of land established for banana cultivation, but at the same time it occupies the last places in terms of yield. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of monthly applications of efficient microorganisms cultivated in banana, cocoa leaf and rice flours on banana plants. The experimental design was a randomized block design with three treatments T1 (rice flour plus microorganisms), T2 (cocoa leaf flour plus microorganisms) and T3 (banana flour plus microorganisms), each treatment had three replicates. The results of the statistical analysis show that the treatment of rice flour + efficient microorganisms presented the highest mean for bunch weight and ratio, although there were no significant differences in some variables, economically the difference in weight is important, allowing a better conversion with respect to the other treatments. Regardless of the difference between treatments, the use of efficient microorganisms on the farm improved soil conditions, microbiota and the percentage of healthy roots.