64 Papaya
4.11 Competition with Traditional Crops
Papaya is in huge competition with traditional fruit crops such as banana, pineapple,
grapes and guava. Despite its nutritional and medicinal importance, papaya finds
restricted place in the farming systems and is not being exploited commercially. The
traditional fruit crops have established their place in farming systems, developed
TABLE 4.2
Income from Papaya-cum-Tobacco Intercropping
Intercropping
System
Yield
(q/ha)Total Income
(Rs./ha)Production
Cost (Rs./ha)Net Return
(Rs./ha)Total Net
Income
(Rs./ha)Tobacco sole crop 20 60,000 14,524 45,476 45,476
Papaya sole crop 900 135,000 35,000 100,000 100,000
Tobacco + Papaya 20 + 900 60,000 + 135,000 14,524 + 13,476 45,476 + 121,624 167,000
- Rate of tobacco (Dried leaves) = Rs. 30.00/kg.
- Rate of papaya fruit = Rs. 1.50/kg.
- Fruiting plants in 1 ha = 2,250.
- Yield of fruit/plant = 40 kg.
FIGURE 4.6 (See colour insert.) Collar rot disease–free papaya on raised bed.