Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Pests of Mango Mangifera Indica Linn. at Storage And Their Control

Dr. T V Sathe, A S Desai, Dr. P M Bhoje, Divya K Jadhav

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Mango Mangifera indica, the king of fruits was suffered from various insect pests and rodents at storage. There by affected the marketability of the fruits both in India and aoad. Therefore, the paper deals with the biology, damage and control measures of pests of mango at storage. From insect category weevils, fruit flies, scales, mealy bugs, dermestids,eye flies and drosophila were prominent pests and from rodents, Rattus rattus and Bandicota indica were the prominent pests found feeding on stored fruits. The insect pests were controlled by adopting preventive control measures and spraying storage shade and around area with 0.02% phosphamidon and treating fruits with 0.03% Azadirachtin or keeping fruits in hot water 50 to 52o c for 2 to 3 hours while, rodents were controlled by keeping poison baits in their nesting and visiting places

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Dr. T V Sathe, A S Desai, Dr. P M Bhoje, Divya K Jadhav Pests of Mango Mangifera Indica Linn. at Storage And Their Control Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.7 July 2014

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