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Как выращивают бананы в Китае. ФотоVirtual tour of the plantation.

It so happened that during filming of the regatta in China, I have formed one free day in which I, without thinking, on the ride went inland, and walked the whole day on foot visiting the various plantations in the peasant villages, rural school, churches and many other interesting places. Wandered on the path I’m on a banana plantation.

Photography and text by Sergei Anashkevich

1. And it happened, as often happens, quite by accident… A particular plan of motion in a completely strange places was not just stopped a taxi “deeper” and then went on the GPS, looking for something interesting. So accidentally came across an abandoned plantation pandakova (talk about it another time), and behind it, across the Creek, he saw a banana…

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

2. I wonder what is there beyond the Creek, the road running through pandrosou the plantation – ground, and here, on a banana – paved. Apparently bananas as a crop, is important. At the entrance to the “banana Paradise” concrete hut, which was completely empty. I have not met anyone on the plantation…

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

3. Bananas here look quite different from what we are accustomed to see them in our supermarkets. Here fruits have a square cross-section, not rounded. They grow on low trees, huge heavy bunches.

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

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

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

5. At some point during the formation of the fruit, the flowers are cut off the bunches. If this is not done, it will consume a lot of nutrients from the tree, and the fruit will not gain the necessary amount and will not have the necessary consumer properties. It looks like a full-blown flower of the banana:

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

6. Once the flower is cut down, the fruit some time to develop, gaining weight and volume, and then…

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

7. … they wear a giant plastic bag. He needed to ensure that ripening fruit is not fall of a raindrop and did not sit down dew, otherwise the bananas will go bad before they are cut.

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

8. So they grow in plastic bags, eleven weeks. To full ripeness the bananas are not adjusted, because from here they were taken in different parts of the world, besides the fruits during transportation and even dry out.

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

9. Interestingly, not all the trees here grow bananas evenly. Somewhere they are already under the bags where still gaining volume, and the maturing flower…

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

10. And then, behind a banana plantation, starts the plantation of mango. And here is the same story with will stepeny maturity of the fruit. On some trees they are small and just beginning to form in the usual form, in some almost ripe and some of them had just collected. The fact is that the climate here in Hainan, so that many cultures fruit almost in a continuous loop without interruption for the winter and the seasons…

Как выращивают бананы в Китае. Фото

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