Pramono’s Papaya farm

Promono, who is a member in our Procurement team, owned a papaya farm near Rumbai. Someone in office told me that he is the biggest supplier of papayas for entire Pekanbaru region. He also owns three fruit shops, named “Pondok Papaya” around Rumbai.

We planned to visit his farm one day. Since it was quite far from camp, we went with Kurniawan’s car as he was going to visit papaya farm on some personal business.

We started around 10am on a Saturday morning. It was a long drive, on a very rough road. It was a mud road with lot of pot holes. In between, road was not visible & all we can see was water. We also crossed couple of wooden bridges, where there was no side walls & only one vehicle can cross at a time. Kurniawan had a hard time driving.

By the time we reach Papaya Farm, it was 11:00am. We had a warm welcome by the caretaker family of farm. They served us with banana’s, aqua & some local snacks. We enjoyed the treat & went for the tour of farm. Pramono guided us & also gave lot of information about papayas & its cultivation.

The hosts served us fresh papayas to eat. They also offered us few papayas to take home. It was a nice trip, thanks to Pramono & Iwan.

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