Imagine staying a few minutes in the sun in this hot scorching summer.

Crops stay in this dessicating heat all day and no amount of water supply to the plants prevents them from being impacted. With summer coming in as early as late February this year, the impacts have already affected crop stands. Tomato & capsicum fruits are blanched while plants have been drying out, watermelon fruits in an entire plot have burst open while still unripe, beans plants have wilted and dried, gourd plants have dried up to turn to dust on touch, papaya plants stay wilted all day awaiting the night to recoup.

If you are wondering why our organic fruit and vegetables are limited in variety and quantity, you know why. Let's now await an early monsoon!

Papaya (Carica papaya) was called the 'angel fruit' by Columbus and it is deemed by many as a wonder fruit for its delicious taste, flavour, nutritional benefits and medicinal properties. At NaturePinks Gardens, we have about 360 plants of organically grown Papaya which are now under fruiting. We harvest the fruit once or twice a week and distribute them in select localities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.