The History of California Papaya Plants

Papaya plants that have a Latin name (Carica Papaya L) is a plant that comes from southern Mexico and Nicaragua. Then papaya plants expanded and cultivated in tropical countries including Indonesia. This plant is easy to grow, with soil media mixed with sand, enough sunlight and good drainage, papaya plants can thrive.
Papaya crop varieties California is one type of papaya that is loved and began to be cultivated by many farmers at this time because it is very promising profits. Papaya California has its own properties and advantages of the fruit is not too large with a weight of 0.8 to 1.5 kg / fruit, thick and smooth green, oval-shaped, yellow ripe fruit, sweet taste, chewy and thick meat.

California papaya varieties include superior and mature species, the tree / stem antique dwarf / shorter than other papaya species, plant height about 1.5 to 2 meters and can be harvested after the age of 8-9 months. The tree can bear fruit until the age reaches four years. In one month can be harvested up to four times. Once harvested every California papaya tree can produce 2 to 3 fruits with one harvest every week ranging from 1.9 to 3.6 tons per hectare.

California papaya plants today is one tropical agricultural commodity that has a huge opportunity to be developed in Indonesia as an agribusiness business with a promising prospect. California papaya cultivation in Pontianak West Kalimantan Province is able to produce monthly production ranged from 7.6 tons to 14.4 tons with a population of 1200 plants per hectare.

The development of California Papaya Plants in peatlands as an effort to assist Pontianak City in optimizing the potential of untapped land, through the development of California papaya plants in addition to reducing environmental pollution by smoke from burning peatlands, which could be one of the most important efforts to increase income and prosperity farmers / communities.
California Papaya plants have seeds with oval shaped and small, if sowing leaves are light green and aged under 7 months there is a pigtail or antenna that looms short at the end of the leaf. High Papaya trees are relatively dwarf 1.5 - 2 m with stems that are short and spaced. Flowers consist of two types of flowers that can not bear fruit (flower paes) and flowers can bear fruit that many popping up on the stalk after the plant was about 3 months old. Fruitful ability to reach 25 - 30 fruit with a bright green outer skin color if before cooking will appear a yellowish color around the stalk. The color of bright red flesh is hollow like a star. Sweet fruit flavors and has a shelf life of up to 5 days without the help of preservatives.

Benefits

The use of Papaya plants is quite large in the industry because the components it has quite complete and useful. For every 100 grams of material there are active ingredients as shown in table.