Kuningan develops 'superior' fruit

Kuningan develops 'superior' fruit

BOGOR: Kuningan regency in West Java has teamed up with the
Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) to develop a center for
research and the cultivation of "superior" fruit.

IPB spokesman Agus Lelana said on Friday that Kuningan Regent
Aang Hamid Suganda would provide 10 hectares of farmland for the
center in a bid to boost agriculture and the tourist industry in
the regency.

Researchers have been working to cultivate papaya, banana,
pineapple and mangosteen plants which bear better quality fruit
than that which is imported.

IPB rector A. Ansori Mattjik said the institute's Tropical
Fruit Research Center had produced Papaya IPB 1, which can be
harvested all year. -- JP