• A.Paneerselvan
• Dr.S.Memukhan Gnanamoni

The banana is one of the most familiar and important of all tropical fruits. It is the oldest fruit known to mankind. It antiquity can be traced back to the “Garden of Paradise. Bananas are the fruit of Musa accuminata. Accuminata means long – pointed or tapering, not referring to the fruit, but the flowers giving birth to the fruit. Antonius Musa was the personal physician to Roman emperor Octavius Agustus, and it was he who was credited for promoting cultivation of the exotic African fruit from 63 to 14 B.C. Portuguese sailors brought bananas to Europe from West Africa in the early fifteenth century. Its Guinean name Banema, which became banana in English, was first found in the seventeenth century. The original banana has been cultivated and used since ancient times. Even predating the cultivation of rice while the banana thrived in Africa, its origins are said to be of East Asia and Oceania. The bananas was carried by the sailors to the canary Island and the West Indies, finally making it to North America with Spanish missionary Frian Tomas de Berlanga. The major objective of the study is to analyze production and marketing of bananas in Kanyakumari district. The study is based on primary and secondary data. The primary data is collected from 100 banana cultivators from the study area. The secondary data have been mainly collected from the books, journals, magazines, and also from the internet. The collected data were analyzed with the help of percentage and Garrett Ranking technique.

Banana, History, Kinds, Production, Marketing and Problems

"A STUDY ON PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF BANANA IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.1885-1893, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901D70.pdf

"A STUDY ON PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF BANANA IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp1885-1893, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901D70.pdf