This guide is written to help starters make their first steps in commercial pawpaw production and to help improve production for those who have been doing pawpaw farming. It is a simple, easy to follow guide that provides step by step directions right from land preparation to post harvest...
01-01-2011 The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated and expanded to include best handling...
01-05-2005 This research paper found that papaya leaf extracts do appear to exhibit some degree of anti-malarial activity by inhibiting in vitro Plasmodium falciparum growth. 32 pages, tables
01-01-1998 This is the third volume in a series on tropical and subtropical fruits. The editors collaborated with 24 scientists in preparation of this current volume, which contains 14 chapters covering 23 fruits. Major processed fruits covered are mango and pineapple. Emerging fruit crops that are...
01-01-1994 More than 45 authors present current information on how to identify and control diseases of bananna, coconut, mango, pineapple, papaya, and avocado. Table of Contents Introduction; Part 1: Banana; Taxonomy; Origins and Importance; Anatomy; Horticulture; Banana Diseases Caused by Fungi;...
Edible Portion:Fruit, Flowers, Leaves, Vegetable, Seeds - spice Pawpaw is one of the very well known fruits of the tropics. The straight soft stemmed plant grows up to 3-5 metres tall and only occasionally has branches. The stem is softly woody and has scars from fallen leaves along it. At the...