Saturday, April 28, 2007

When the Jackfruit was coloured orange


The Jackfruit and cempedak indeed close relatives. However, jackfruit meat was orange like cempedak a rare scenery. So, when the orange jackfruit was present at the exhibition of the Kasetsart University crop, Bangkok, of Thailand, natural if he was surrounded by the visitor.
This was supreme Chonburi, said Deng Suriya, the owner.

Since the last 7 years Deng Suriya incessant Artocarpus heterophyllus. His perseverance currently is in the form of 5.000 orange jackfruit trees that grew fertile in Chonburi to the land measuring 16 ha. The age 3 years could crop. Usually was reaped 2 months after blossoming, he said.

The previous fruitful season, December 2005 and in May 2006, he reaped 20 kanoon-term the jackfruit in Thai-per the tree. The orange Suriya jackfruit was acknowledged by his reliability.
Three times were endless the degree of the first champion the contest in Pattaya became his property. That because of the colour other from normal and was felt sweet, said the skinned man the cooked sapodilla. Same that made the sale of the hard seed of the behaviour tree in Kasetsart Fair.

In Cijunjung

According to Montri Wongrakpanich, the director Department of Agriculture Extention in Thailand, the orange jackfruit has for a long time grown in Chonburi, Thailand. His productivity was then considered to be big. Each tree produced 20 with the weight approximately 3 kg.
Love, his colour was still orange. In fact that was looked for was red, he said. The price of the orange jackfruit was equal to the normal jackfruit, 20 baht or Rp 5,200/kg.

The jackfruit was exotic that evidently not the Thai monopoly. In the Cijunjung Village, West Sumatra, also had the unique jackfruit. According to Drs Jawal Anwaruddin Shah, Ms-researcher in the Hall of the Crop Research in Solok, Sumatra West-dompolan only was suspended in the main stick. Usual him same was in the branch. The characteristics are usually owned cempedak.

The possibility of the orange jackfruit the natural crossing between cempedak and the jackfruit, said Jawal. Have the shape of round that currently was researched to be released to the superior variety. The Tamil Nadu city, India, also had the coloured jackfruit. The uniqueness, the jackfruit in the south Indian area was red. Really red, said Montri recalled the visit to India in the last 10 years. The matter of the feeling was sweeter compared with the orange jackfruit.
Meat then thick and crispy. Love, in the area of his origin, the red jackfruit was not yet often developed.

Yellow Round

Apart from the orange jackfruit, Thailand had the round jackfruit was shiny yellow. The jackfruit belonging to Piyamada Farm in Saraburi. Piyamada, the owner, planted 450 trees. The first harvest was done when the tree was 2.5 years old. At that time the amount of only 2, said Piyamada. The harvest along with 8-10/the tree. The weight was considered to be big, 8-10 kg.

The freshness of the meat can be seen from it seems that was sweet was mixed with acid. The feeling mixture so that was enjoyed by the local inhabitants. The reason often had an interest taken in him by the price of the seed then jumped. The stick 1 branch costing Rp52,000, 2 branches Rp78,000, and 4 branches Rp130,000.

The orange jackfruit, round yellow, and red like antiques that were looked for by the lover. Supposing that they were in Indonesia, the predicate of the prima donna must be held. Was like this the Jawal conviction and Mubin Usman, farmer in Jakarta.

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