date:Dec 03, 2018
The number of passion fruit farmers in Kerala has grown in the past five years. While many households grow the tropical fruit as part of homestead farming, it is now cultivated on a large scale in the districts of Idukki, Ernakulam, Palakkad, Thrissur, Kozhikode and many others.
PP Joy, former head of Pineapple Research Station, a centre under Kerala Agricultural University, has conducted several studies and published papers on the fruit and its farming practices. He says many factors have cont