Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

The limitations in using fungicide resources and probability of the development of resistance to the fungicides prompted us to search for viable alternatives that are non-chemical, eco-friendly, simple to implement, cheap and non-detrimental to human health. Consequently, we used hot air and hot water treatments at selected temperature and time combinations for the control of anthracnose disease in mango fruits and the study revealed that all the selected hot water treatments delayed anthracnose disease in the mango fruits to standardize a hot water treatment protocol to manage the post-harvest anthracnose. The experiment was clearly point out that the incidence of anthracnose on untreated control fruits was having disease incidence of 13.3% with disease severity of 60.0%. While, HWT @ 50 °C for 30 minutes caused minimum disease incidence of 3.3% showing minimum disease severity of 20.0% followed by 26.7% on fruits treated @ 52 °C for 10 minutes with the incidence of 4.4%.