Passion fruit plants require fertile land with plentiful supply of mineral and organic materials in order to achieve optimum growth and yields.<\/p>\n
Market demand<\/strong> Uganda currently earns about US$100,000 annually from export of passion fruit mainly to the EU countries. That figure is expected to rise, according to the Agribusiness Development Centre. The growing number of supermarkets in Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda and Sudan presents new market opportunities for Uganda\u2019s passion fruit.<\/p>\n Variety of Passion Fruits<\/strong> Areas that Grow Passion Fruits in Uganda<\/strong> Post Harvest Care and Market Access For Passion Fruits<\/strong> The standard quality specification that the fruits should meet includes the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n Challenges to overcome<\/strong> The value of passion fruit<\/strong> Exporters of Passion fruit in Uganda<\/strong> The processors<\/strong> Passion fruit plants require fertile land with plentiful supply of mineral and organic materials in order to achieve optimum growth and yields. Market demandPassion fruits have a big local market but very few farmers in Uganda venture into growing them because of numerous pests and diseases that attack and destroyed them. Passion fruits are grown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Passion fruits have a big local market but very few farmers in Uganda venture into growing them because of numerous pests and diseases that attack and destroyed them. Passion fruits are grown by small scale farmers and there are few large farmers who have taken up the growing of passions.<\/p>\n
The following are the various varieties of passions available in Uganda:<\/p>\n\n
High quality purple passions are produced in the high altitude (above 1,200m) where there is limited incidence of diseases. The key districts include:<\/p>\n\n
The fruit turns from Green to deep Purple (or Yellow) when ripe and then fall to the
ground within a few days. They can either be picked when they have changed colour or
gathered from the ground daily.<\/p>\n\n
The challenges to overcome include the following:<\/p>\n\n
The values of passion growing are as follows:<\/p>\n\n
The few exporters include the following:<\/p>\n\n
The prominent companies in the processing of Juices and concentrates from Passion fruits are:<\/p>\n\n