How de-suckering is practiced in banana?

De-suckering is removal of surplus and unwanted suckers from banana plant. Suckers are removed from the mother either by cutting the sucker at ground level or by destroying the heart of the suckers without detaching the sucker from the plant. De-suckering can also achieved by pouring kerosene oil into the heart of the sucker. Under garden land and wet land cultivation, de-suckering is done at monthly intervals. In hill banana ,two bearing plants and two suckers per clump are considered as the optimum condition and the rest are de-suckered. Only one sucker is retained per plant and set for ratooning.