Keywords
Costs and returns
How to Cite
Abstract
Because of the growing interest in alternative tropical fruit crops to diversify farm income, this 6-page fact sheet written by Fredy H. Ballen, Aditya Singh, Edward Evans, and Jonathan Crane and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department offers an estimate of costs and returns associated with operating an established sugar apple orchard in south Florida.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe1053
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Crane, J. H., M. Aerts, and A. M. Mossler. 2002. Crop Profile for Atemoya and Sugar apple in Florida. https://ipmdata.ipmcenters.org/documents/cropprofiles/FLatemoyaandsugarapple2009.pdf
Crane, J. H., C. F. Balerdi, and I. Maguire. 2016. Sugar apple growing in the Florida Home Landscape. EDIS# HS38. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg330
Morton, J. 1987. "Sugar apple." In Fruits of Warm Climates. Published by Julia Morton, Miami FL. https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/sugar_apple.html
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