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Nicolas Naranja · 08-11-2012, 07:45 PM

I've heard that it takes roughly 48" of water to produce a crop of bananas in the tropics. That would equate to about 5 gallons/per mat/per day. It seems like a lot until you figure that in my area an average banana gets 2300 gallons of water/year from the precipitation.

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