Anu, G KrishnanKAUAmrita ManoharKAU2024-08-172024-08-172023-07-21https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810213335Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is an evergreen, tropical, herbaceous fruit crop valued for its taste, medicinal, and dietary benefits. Lack of suitable high-yielding dessert purpose papaya genotypes, scarcity of irrigation water, high cost of fertilisers and limitation with respect to land area available for cultivation are the major factors limiting commercial cultivation of papaya in Kerala. In this background, the present investigation on "Genotype evaluation and production technology development for high density planting system in papaya (Carica papaya L.)" was undertaken at the college orchard attached to the Department of Fruit Science, College of Agriculture, Vellanikkara, during 2021-2022. The study consisted of two separate experiments, experiment I and experiment II. In experiment I, evaluation of genotypes for table purpose under Kerala conditions was carried out in RBD using 25 genotypes. The seeds were collected from research stations and homesteads in Kottayam, Emakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, and Malappuram districts. The nutrient management was done as per PoP recommendations for papaya (KAU, 2016).EnglishThesis