The growing of passion-fruit

Abstract

Passion-fruit is grown to a varying extent in most of the Highlands Districts of the New Guinea mainland. The variety grown is mainly the purple passion-fruit (Passiflora edulis) which thrives in frostfree regions between 3,000 and 6,000 ft elevation. Cottee’s General Foods Ltd have a large factory at Goroka where all the fruit from the various Districts is processed and the juice then shipped to Australia.