木瓜可以做药用,可以做染料,产区人民用做木瓜餅,供食。經济价值高,又适于山地栽培。木瓜在湖南湘乡县番江栽培已經有較长的历史,根据已有材料証实,酸木瓜有150多年,香木风50年。解放前反动政府对木瓜栽培的摧殘,基本停止生产,原有的木瓜树大部分荒废了,产量大大下降,剩余的部分也为地主所占 Papaya can do medicinal, can do the dye, producing area people use papaya cake for food. High economic value, but also suitable for mountain cultivation. Papaya in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province has a long history of culture, according to the available materials confirmed that there are more than 150 years of sour papaya, fragrant wood for 50 years. Before the liberation of the reactionary government on the cultivation of papaya, basically stopped production, most of the original abandoned papaya tree, the output dropped significantly, the remaining part of the landowners also accounted for