PAPAYA

Papaya

Papaya is a quick growing,typically-stemmed,short lived,large perennial herb. It is available round the year.It is used as fresh fruit while the unripe fruits are commonly used as vegetables  for cooking. In our campus we have been seen some papaya plot.

Common name:papaya

Scientific name:Carica papaya

papaya plant

Family name :Caricaceae

Present status

The papaya ranks 10^th in area & 7^thproduction  in Bangladesh.

Nutritive value :

                                  Papaya is very nutritious fruit .The amount of vit-A in papaya is the second highest among the fruits &comes to next to mango.It contains fair quantities of vit-C,some riboflavin &niacin&it is good source  of Ca,P,Fe.It also has medicinal & industrial uses.

mature fruit

Varieties:

The varieties Coimbatore-1,Washington,Solo,Honey Dew etc are well known& commercially grown in many  parts of the world  as well as Bangladesh. BARI papaya-1(shahi) in 1992, which is the only variety in BD.

Harvesting:

The 1^st crop of fruits is harvested in 12-14 months after transplanting.

lot of papaya fruits

On average, yield of 60-70 t/ha may be grown of papaya. But in the country national average of papaya yield is 42.83.