Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Tejasree K, Ramaiah M, Sarada G, Swarajya Lakshmi K and Thanuja Sivaram M

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted at Department of fruit Science, College of horticulture, Anantharajupeta to access the effect of bagging on mango fruits (cv. Neelum) on the incidence of different insect pests during 2021-2022 in a randomized block design with ten treatments which were replicated three times. The fruits were bagged at marble stage (30 days after fruit set). The fruits were bagged with brown paper bag, two layered yellow paper bag and white plane paper bag and control, removed for every 15 days intervals (forth night) at 30, 45 and 60 days from bagging when the pest population is contact the data was recorded. The results showed that bagging treatments had significantly reduced the incidence of insect pests like thrips, fruit borer, mealy bug and fruit fly. Thus, bagged come out to be environment friendly and also effective tool to protect mango fruits from different insect pests, helping to improve fruit quality.