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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 Care:Avoid sandy and sticky or heavy clay soils::Apply fertilizer twice a year, first at the beginning of monsoon and second in the later part.For the attack of spider mites, aphids, grasshoppers use the prophylactic sprays::Sunlight Full sun::Watering Low::Soil-Other than sandy and sticky or heavy clay soils, well drained::Temperature-25 to 35 degrees C::Fertilizer-NPK in the ratio of 10-6-10.Harvest Season All year round