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Papaya is a popular fruit famous for its high nutritive and medicinal properties.Papaya plants can be male, female, or bisexual. Papaya is a perennial plant. Rarely, the seeds fail to germinate because seed viability is completely lost in about 50 days. The seed rate is 250 to 300 gm/hectare. It comes to fruit in a year.A tree can produce 25 to 40 fruits weighing 30 to 60 kg in the first 20 months.Planting And CareAvoid sandy and sticky or heavy clay soilsApply fertilizer twice a year, first at the beginning of monsoon and second in the later partFor the attack of spider mites, aphids, grasshoppers use the prophylactic spraysPapaya CareIt grows in tropical and subtropical climatesSelect a sunny and sheltered place in your gardenYou cant start them in pots as they prone to damage while transplantingYou can start sowing in the spring, monsoon, and autumnDig a hole half a meter across and fill it with a mixture of compost and soilThe pits are filled with topsoil along with 20 kg of farmyard manure, 1 kg neem cake and 1 kg bone mealSprinkle few seeds and cover lightly with potting mixtureA spacing of 2