Budidaya Buah Naga

Contains a guide on how to plant dragon fruit from seed to harvest

Dragon fruit is the most sought-after fruit commodity among the public. This certainly makes many fruit farmers start looking for ways to plant dragon fruit for cultivation.

Not only because it contains many good properties for the body, dragon fruit also brings big profits for farmers.

Dragon fruit has a distinctive taste, has 80% water content and the fruit is indeed fresh. In addition, the demand is quite stable in the market. Even so, the fluctuating number of requests also greatly affects the selling price.

Why so? Because the quality of dragon fruit is the same between one crop and another, of course it will make the average selling price standard.

So, in order to cultivate dragon fruit, the results are better, of course you have to pay attention to the quality of the cultivation.

Starting from the selection of seeds, land management to fertilization. Choosing the fertilization process is not just fertilizing but also nourishing plants and fruit so that the results are maximized. This dragon fruit plant, which is a cactus family, is not native to Indonesia but originates from Mexico.

Dragon fruit became popular in Indonesia around the 2000s. At first, dragon fruit was a rare fruit plant and not many people understood how to plant dragon fruit properly.

The longer the dragon fruit market prospects start to look promising. Dragon fruit is a fruit with a high level of demand. Even the country with the largest supplier of dragon fruit in the world is only able to fulfill 50% of the world's consumer demand.

Dragon fruit is also known to be highly nutritious and able to cure various diseases. The taste of dragon fruit itself tends to be sweet and refreshing.

Seeing the opportunity and the high demand for dragon fruit certainly makes some people interested in cultivating dragon fruit.