PAPAYA (Carica papaya) Family: Caricaceae Papaya produces fruits throughout the year. It requires less area for tree, comes to fruiting in a year, is easy to cultivate and provides good income. It has a high nutritive and medicinal value. Papain prepared from dried latex of its immature fruits is used in meat tenderizing, manufacture of chewing gum, cosmetics, for degumming natural silk and to give shrink resistance to wool. Besides, it is also used in pharmaceutical industries, textile and garment cleaning paper and adhesive manufacture, sewage disposal, etc. Climate and soil Papaya is a tropical fruit. However, it also grows well in the mild subtropical regions in India up to1, 000 m above mean sea level. Temperature is one of the most important climatic factors which determine the success of papaya cultivation. Night temperature below 12`-14`C for several hours during winter season affects its growth and production severely. It is very much sensitive to frost, str...
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