Bananas

BBTV Plantation A - located at B4 - 9.0 hectares

**What is Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV)?**
Banana Bunchy Top Virus is contracted from aphids who feed on the bananas and generate a highly infectious banana virus. The virus has no cure and is said to be the most "economically destructive" disease that can affect bananas.

** Symptoms **  

The earliest sign of BBTV is dark green lines otherwise known as "morse code" which indicate the inhabitants of aphids. As the disease spreads, all of the plantation is effected. The leaves on the banana plantations group togther and turn yellow, for new planatations, growth is deformed and usually stunted. Unfortunatly there is no cure for BBTV only prevcention through extermination of infected plants and pesticides for plants that have not yet been infected,

**Our Banana Plantations** Each Banana plant is planted //__**3 meters**__// apart and spread evenly every __//**1.5 meters**//__ along each row  Each bunch weighs **40kg**

**OUR PLANTATION DISTRIBUTION**

Our plantation is 9.0 hectares, which is equivalent to 90,000 square meters. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">9.0 hectares = 90,000 meters

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">//How many bananas are in each row?// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">3 meters apart, 1.5 meters along each row

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">1.5/90,000 = 30,000 bananas in each row

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Within each row, bananas are 3 meters apart

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">30,000 bananas divided by 3 bananas in each row = 10,000 bananas

<span style="color: #0ba50b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Calculations of bananas per hectare**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">77 Banana plantations can be made across the island, and 33 plantations can go along the island, therefore <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">There are 33 x 77 = 2541 per hectare. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">We have 9.0 hectares so therefore, we have 2541 x 9 = 22,869 bananas within our plantation! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Our Plantation: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">3 hectares by 3 hectares.
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2541 ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">(It would take about 160 days for our plantation to become infected.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Calculations: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">(160 days) || =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"> =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">1x2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2x3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=6 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">6x4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=24 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">24x5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=120 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">120x6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=720 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">720x7 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=5040 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">5040x8 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=40320
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">40320x9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">=362880 (180 days) ||

<span style="color: #0ba50b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Affects upon Banana Plantations within the livestock region

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= = = = = = =<span style="color: #0ba50b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Affects upon the island =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">WITHIN OUR ISLAND THERE ARE 2541 BANANAS PER HECTARE
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plantation A - located at B4 - 9.0 hectares <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plantation B - located at C7 - 12.4 hectares <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plantation C - located at C8 - 1.2 hectares <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plantation D - located at C5 - 35.6 hectares <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plantation E - located at B6 - 48.6 hectares

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">**TOTAL NUMBER OF HECTARES** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">9.0 + 12.4 + 1.2 + 35.6 + 48.6 = 106.8

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">**TOTAL NUMBER OF BANANAS** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">106.8 X 2541 = 271,318.8

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">It would take __//180 days//__ (or around 5 months) for all of the Banana's to be infected.

<span style="color: #0ba50b; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Prevention**

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> ﻿﻿As there is no cure for BBTV our main focus is prevention. As the virus was brought in by hemp exports, all hemp plantations as well as all banana plantations must be sprayed with prestisides immediatley. This is our best means of controling the virus and ensuring that it does not spread to any of our other plantations. Whilst it is somewhat easy to contain, liberties involving clothing, exports and imports must be properly monitored and disinfected after contact with infected bananas or hemp container shipping. By increasing our quarantine for products entering and leaving the island in shipping containers, we must take care to ensure that all products and inspected closely. =====

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