Thiruvananthapuram’s Vinod Sahadevan Nair, sometimes called ‘Banana Guy’, close down his internet designing company in Kochi to go back house and construct a singular farm. Nowadays, he grows over 500 kinds of bananas.
Do you know that there are over 1,000 other kinds of bananas international? Whilst best 10 to fifteen varieties of bananas are grown commercially in India, a farmer in Kerala has cultivated an outstanding number of 500 types!
Fondly known as the ‘Banana Guy’, Vinod Sahadevan Nair (63) from Parassala, Thiruvananthapuram, used to be now not a farmer when he began his profession.
After finishing his BSc in Physics, Vinod labored for some time and later began a internet designing company in Kochi. It used to be after his mom’s demise that he made up our minds to return again house and turn out to be a farmer to make bigger his circle of relatives farms.
Vinod sought after to create a singular farm and began amassing kinds of bananas, now not recurrently observed in Kerala.
He travelled to other states — reminiscent of Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Manipur — to supply unusual kinds of plantains. He even approached quite a lot of horticulture departments, analysis institutes and universities to pay money for as many types as he may just.
“Each and every roughly banana has a definite cultural component connected to it as smartly. As an example, ‘Manoranjitham’, a number of Kanyakumari emanates a lovely perfume. So within the olden days, folks would hold them of their properties all the way through auspicious events, marriages and fairs,” Vinod explains.
Right now, his farms have 500 kinds of bananas — together with global types like the woman’s finger banana, purple banana and blue java. He journeyed to nations like Malaysia, Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and Honduras, returning with a large number of uncommon coastal local weather plantains.
Vinod sells his produce on the wholesale marketplace and earns as much as Rs 1 lakh monthly. And to unfold consciousness about other kinds of bananas, he has began a Fb team the place he provides those types totally free.
(Edited by way of Pranita Bhat)