ENVIROMENTAL IMPACTS

Farmers have to confront lots of pests and diseases of plants. They use herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and irrigated water to protect their crop and a healthy production. Each of these things adds to the cost of the product, but they are needed investments. Animals such as birds and bees died because of overuse of pesticides.

3 LINKS THAT HELP ME WITH MY BLOG

1. http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-papaya.html

2. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg054

3. http://mickyrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/12/papaya-milk.html

PAPAYA MILK RECIPE

What do you do with overripe papaya?

What I need:a kife, a spoon, a electric blender and a tablespoon.

Prepare time:30 minutes to 1 hour

Ingredients:

-1 cup of milk

-1 cup cubed, extra ripe papaya

-2 cups of ice cubes(Don't have to add ice cubes but it'll taste like papaya milkshake.)

-2 tablespoon of sugar

Instructions:

1. Pill the papaya. Cut it in half length-wise, remove the seeds with a spoon, then chop the papaya flesh.

2. Place the papaya flesh into the blender with milk and blend on medium~high.

3. Slowly pour in the sugar.

4. Blend until smooth and serve.

A CLIMATE MAP OF BRAZIL

A Climate map of Brazil.

TOPOGRAPHY OF BRAZIL

Papaya trees are grown in Brazil.
Papaya is a fruit crop widely cultivated around the world, especially in Brazil. In the states of Espirito Santo and Bahia papaya plantations lengthen to an area of 35.556ha, mainly as monoculture. Papayas produced in the northern of the state of Espirito Santo have excellent climate conditions that the fruit is produced the whole year round. They grow best at lower altitudes below 1000m.

SOIL CONDITIONS

Papaya need regular water because a lot of their water evapourates in hot weather. But, over watering will cause root rot, especially in cool and wet weather. Papaya need light sandy loam, moist and well-drained alkaline soil. Papaya trees will do wel with care in sandy soil, and rocky soil. Usaully they are planted by direct seedling. They need a lot of fertilizing such as strong and fresh manure or compost. It is best to keep the soil moist in hot weather and dry in cold weather. Roots will grow well where soil temperatures remain above 15.5C(60F).

ORIGIN

Origin: from southern Mexico, especially Chiapas and Veracruz,Central America and nothern South America. The papaya is now planted in most tropical countries.
Scientific Name:Carica papaya L
Family:Caricaceae

CLIMATE FOR PAPAYA TREE

Papayas grow on trees in tropical and subtropical climates such as Sri Lanka, India, Hawaii and Brazil. They grow best under warm and humid conditions, but not in areas with strong, hot or dry winds. This is because they have very short roots and they get heavier as they grow older. Therfore, they get blown over easily. Papaya trees can be grown in shade, but it will not be as sweet as the one that grow in the sunlight. Regular rainfall is good for plant growth and fruit production. Temperatures below -0.6C (31F) will damage or kill papaya trees. Temperatures between 20C-30C (68F-89.6F) is best for papaya trees . They usually grow from 5m to 10m. (16ft-33 ft)