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TAMARILLO FARMING

By:Ernesto, Nutrition and goodhealth manager

From:TTL,The truelegends publisher

AGRICULTURE

HARVEST CONSERVATION

TAMARILLO FARMING PLANTATION

What's Tamarillo

The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It is best known as the species that bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit.[2] It is also known as the tree tomato,[3] tomate de árbol, tomate andino, tomate serrano, blood fruit, poor man's tomatoe, tomate de yuca, tomate de españa, sachatomate, berenjena, chilto and tamamoro in South America, tyamtar, rambheda or rukh tamatar (lit. tree tomatoes) in Nepal, and terong Belanda (Dutch eggplant) in Indonesia. It is popular globally, especially in Peru, Colombia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Nepal, Rwanda, Burundi, Australia, Bhutan and the United States. src: Wikipedia

SEED EXTRACTION

To prepare the seeds

The seed of Tamarillo it must be from the healthiest trees It's forbidden to sow the seed from the the effected diseases trees, Because the seeds from diseases's trees ,they will spread those diseases after germination.

TO PREPARE THE SEEDS WHICH IT WILL PRODUCE THE GOOD HARVEST.

••>For The choosing where the seeds it will come from, it's necessary to be very attention for the following fact: Choose the good health's tree which it grew in better condition and also having many and biggest fruits. Pick up the fruits which you have chosen Take the water mixed with jik(bleach) or water mixed with high quantity of salt. Wash your fruits in this mixed water. ••>This process kill the bacteria found on the fruits. Cut into two parts the fruit and collect the seeds mixed with tamarillo juice ,use the spoon. After keep this mixture in bottle add the small quantity of water , wait 24hours. After you must filter these seeds from the juice and wash well the seeds with Janelle water (5%), After cleaning take these seeds in cool dry place of cause of to be dry in good condition. Then after keep your seeds in paper envelope bit it has at least 3 months of expiration.

GROWING OF TAMARILLO

The new farm must be far away from the old farm. It's necessary to cultivate the tamarillo germination in the rain season; The better period of plantation is September and October. The tamarillo must be cultivated in lines for the dimensions of 1 or 1.5 meter between tree and other, And 4.5 or 5.0 meter between line and other.

This distance helps the tamarillo to receive the sun light on better quantity and producing the better harvest and facilitate the spreading of insecticide and other fungicide with pump for easy way.

Every tree needs 80gr of NPK17-17-17 and 3gr of organic fertilizer for the first stage of its planting.

DISEASES AND PEST

The problem which ever appear in the tamarillo plantation, it's the disease called powederly mildew caused by the microbiology of fungus familiar called oidium sp reduced by using insecticide mixed with soap.

Tree tomatoes(Tamarillo) are generally pest resistant.

The main pests that attack the tree include the aphids, thrips whiteflies, and nematodes

Aphids

These are small black or greenish soft-bodied sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.

They feed by piercing and sucking sap on tender shoots, especially on the lower leaf surface. The attacked shoots become stunted and the leaves are curled and twisted.

As they feed, aphids excrete honeydew which favours the growth of sooty mold which affects photosynthesis.

Spray KINGCODE ELITE 50EC 10ml/20l or PENTAGON 50EC 10ml/20l or PRESENTO 200SP 5g/20l

Whiteflies

They are tiny sap-sucking white-winged insects which cause damage by inserting their stylets into leaf veins and extracting nourishment from the phloem sap.

The affected plant loses its vitality resulting in yellowing, downward curling and an eventual drying of leaves.

Spray TAURUS 500SP 10g/20l or KINGCODE ELITE 50EC 10ml/20l or PROFILE 440EC 30ml/20l there's other disease come from n nematodes.

NEMATODE,is the worm of the phylum nematoda. Nematode,are among the most abundant animals or Earth, they occur as parasites in animals and plants. or a free-living forms in soilfresh wa5er,marine. The nematodes is in family of Ascarididae.it caused by Meloidogyne sp worm, The consequence of nematodes it cause the roots rot or crown rot caused by phyo-tophthora sp and the deteriorations of the branches.

•••>To take care your tamarillo's farm, you can reduce the risk of spreading the diseases in your farm.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TAMARILLO (Tomatoes tree) in Human life

HEART DISEASES PREVENTATION Tamarillo fruits rich for potassium .

Potassium can decrease the problems caused by the highest quantity of salt (sodium) and help the heart to beat well and it reduces the high speed of blood ,. In general Tamarillo fruits prevent some heart's diseases.

GOOD VISION OF EYES

Vitamin B contain in tamarillo such as B1,B2 and B6 ; The vitamins help the function of our body , good vision of eyes, To engage the fitness of our body and assisting the fabrication of different body hormones.

PREVENT THE CANCER.

The tamarillo in general for red color contain "anthocyanin" it known as the many different diseases protector and prevent cancer; Because of this fruits rich for Vitamin A, that's why it it has engaged for good vision of the eyes.

DIMINISHING SUGAR IN BLOOD

The tamarillo contain polyphenolic, flavonol and anthocyanidin,the research represent that these chemical products fight against many different diseases in human body, and also the research tell us that the tamarillo protect human to be not attacked by diabetes of stage 2.

WEIGHT BALANCE

You can use it as salad,you eat it alone or you produce tamarillo's juice.Because of Acide found in tamarillo (Citric acid and malic Acid) it helps to kick out the fat found in human body on additional of doing sport you would reduce many quantity of body weight in short period of time.

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