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This is why cultivation area for banana crop has seen five-fold increase in the past five years.Assistant director of horticulture, Surat, Dinesh Padaliya said, “Banana crop has been giving consistent return year after year. In some cases, the whole stem of banana tree gets torn. In Bharuch, Surat, and Narmada districts alone, 12,571 hectare, 8,705 hectare and 8,160 hectare of land respectively is under banana cultivation. There is an urgent need to look into this.”Approximately 66,309 hectare of land is under banana cultivation in Gujarat. In Bharuch, the production was 895,055.20 MT, in Surat it was 61,0220.50 MT and in Narmada 563,040.00 MT, sources said..