{"id":1367,"date":"2024-05-25T03:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2025-04-04T03:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:50:17","slug":"banana-intercropping-senior-project-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/2024\/05\/25\/banana-intercropping-senior-project-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana intercropping senior project 2023-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Ortiz and Juan Estaban Martin conducted research on intercropping plants, <em>Arachis pintoi<\/em>, (Mani forerjero), <em>Zingiber officinale<\/em> (Ginger) and <em>Curcuma Longa <\/em>(Tumeric) with bananas rather than the normal method of using bananas as an intercrop with other species:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1208\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1208 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-intercrop-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-intercrop-2.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-intercrop-2-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-intercrop-2-330x452.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-intercrop-2-44x60.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using mani forejero as an intercrop in a banana plantation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<strong>How does the intercropping of a mono-crop of banana <em>Musa sp<\/em>. L benefit the crop:\u00a0 soil quality, available nutrients, and harvest?<\/strong>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1c8N-WrapuZrhQJR-nMbDfnEv17czHnXmvXngt5bkvhg\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1c8N-WrapuZrhQJR-nMbDfnEv17czHnXmvXngt5bkvhg\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This work was carried out at Alejandro\u00b4s parents farm in La Tulia, Valle del Cauca, and was a very solid piece of work that involved planting these species with bananas and seeing the qualitative impact of these on banana development and seeing whether this could be implemented at a larger scale.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1151\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alejandro-banana-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alejandro-banana-1.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alejandro-banana-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alejandro-banana-1-330x440.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alejandro-banana-1-45x60.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro at the start of planting ginger around banana plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Ortiz and Juan Estaban Martin conducted research on intercropping plants, Arachis pintoi, (Mani forerjero), Zingiber officinale (Ginger) and Curcuma Longa (Tumeric) with bananas rather than the normal method of using bananas as an intercrop with other species: \u201cHow does the intercropping of a mono-crop of banana Musa sp. L benefit the crop:\u00a0 soil quality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-2024","category-plantain-and-bananas","category-senior-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}