Pawpaw is grown almost anywhere in all parts of the country and loved by most people. It is a highly perishable fruit, large quantities rot away in a short period after harvest.
With the advent of fruit juice companies in the country, the need to grow pawpaw in commercial quantities has come, so that the fruits can be available all through the year. This will also stop or reduce the use of concentrate flavor that most juice producing companies now use instead of the normal raw fruit extract. The flavors are imported into Nigeria and are synthetic, therefore not as good as the natural flavors in pawpaw powder.
Pawpaw plantation will give rise to the new wave of farming called contract farming.
You as a businessman can also go into processing into powdered form and sell or dry to produce dry fruits which can be supply to food producing companies. Or sell packaged dry fruits when those fruits are out of seasons & expensive to buy.
Contact Gbenga: 08182355047 for improved variety pawpaw seedlings that start to produce at 4 months old and produce all year round for 2 years only,
send email to eesteeresources@gmail.com
To see pictures or it can be send to you on
whatsApp: 08182355047.
If you buy our pawpaw seedlings, you will get a FREE ebook on
PAWPAW BUSINESS.
Hybrid PLANTAIN SUCKERS & MELON are also available
Papayas fruit all year round, as long as the weather is warm enough. Keep them happy and they will keep fruiting. (If the temperatures drop too much they stop flowering. They will flower again as it warms up.)
Young papayas are the most productive. The older a papaya plant gets, the weaker it becomes. It will produce less and smaller fruit, and it may get problems with diseases. Also, because the plants keep growing taller it gets harder to reach the fruit but the hybrid are not so. Please use hybrid pawpaw not wild plant.
I think it's best to just keep planting more. Put in another patch every few months. That way you always have some healthy and productive plants around, and you don't need a ladder to pick the fruit from our hybrid pawpaw plant.
Investment Costing
STAGE 1: Cost of renting 1 acre of land for 2 years/24 Months (@ N2,500 a year ) N5,000.
STAGE 2: Cost of renting tractor Plough@ N7,000 (or less @ N3000 from govt but this takes time to get)
STAGE 3: Cost of buying 1,000 improved variety pawpaw seedlings that start to produce at 4 months old and produce all year round for 2 years only, @ N250 each is N250,000.
STAGE 4: Transportation of seedlings to farm, estimated is N10,000
STAGE 5: Cost of Planting 1,000 seedlings at N15 per stand is NN15,000
STAGE 6: 1st -5th Weeding @ N30,000.
STAGE 7: Purchase of Manure/Fertilizer, Transportation & Fertilizer Application @ N25,000.
STAGE 8: Irrigation, Security, Harvesting, Transportation@ N20,000.
STAGE 9: If you buy an acre of land in oyo state (N45k/N50k per acres). Optional, say N50,000
TOTAL= N362,000. + Land N50,000 + miscellaneous 50,000 = N412,000
NB you can just buy 500 seedlings for a start and at maturity set up a nursery to raise seedlings to expand your farm
We also have 8 acres of land close to river in Ikire just less than two hours from Ibadan, oyo state close to river for sale with document very good for farming at N65k per acres . If you want we can manage the farm for you..
At harvest you will get minimum of 20 pawpaw fruits on a tree which will give a total of 20 X 1000 = 20,000 fruits , if you sell at give away price of N40 per each fruit, you will have N800,000 (40 X 20,000) in 6 months after planting. Since the pawpaw fruit all year round it becomes a regular source of income. And XXXX,000 New Seedlings. By 2nd -3rd year this Pawpaw Farm may expand to 2 or 3 Acres if some seeds and proceeds are reinvested. With a Projected Return On Investment ranging between N1Million and N3Million by 2nd year if expanded.
Transplanting Seedlings
The soil must not be waterlogged. Remove the nylon from around the roots before planting. Take care not to injure the roots or damage the root ball as it is removed from the nylon. Pawpaws typically will be sparsely rooted and have a long brittle tap roots. Plough and harrow the land site and plant the seedlings in holes of 15 cm —20 cm deep and 2 x 2 m spacing.
Fertilizer application
Apply 50 g of NKP 15-15-15 per plant , 3 weeks after transplanting and at monthly intervals up to 6 months after transplanting. Optimum yields have been obtained using 45 g N/plant and a 1:2 N: P ratio. However, application rates should be based on soil test results in order to make maximum use of the fertilizer application.
Weeding
Weed control is very important especially during the first 3 months after transplanting. This may be achieved by hoe weeding, slashing at monthly intervals , or by the use of the herbicide Paraquat glyphosate at 4—6 or 3 kg active ingredient per hectare.
Irrigation
Dry season irrigation is important for pawpaw. For newly transplanted seedlings, apply 3 liters of water per plant twice a week, For flowering plants, apply 5 litres twice a week, and for bearing plants apply 15 liters of water per plant once a week.
Intercropping
Intercrop pawpaw, planted at a spacing of 2 x 2 m, with early maturing plants like okra, leafy vegetable, melon, sweet potato, or sweet corn. These plants should mature within 3 months or poor yields will be obtained due to shading of pawpaw canopies.
Contact Gbenga: 08182355047 for improved variety pawpaw seedlings that start to produce at 4 months old and produce all year round for 2 years only,
send email to eesteeresources@gmail.com
To see pictures or it can be sent to you on
WhatsApp: 08182355047.
We have 8 acres of land close to river in Ikire just less than two hours from Ibadan, Oyo state close to river for sale with document very good for farming at N65k per acres. If you want we can manage the farm for you.
DO YOU HAVE INTEREST, INVESTMENT CASH BUT NO TIME, THEN WE CAN SET UP THE FARM & ALSO MAINTAIN THE FARM AT A FEE
