PESTS
- Pseudostem borer:
- most of the commercial cultivars are attacked by the borer.
- Exudation of plant sap is the initial symptom and blackened mass comes out from the holes bored by the larvae.
- Rhizome weevil:
- Damaged corms show feeding tunnels filled with mass of rotten tissues.
- Banana aphid:
- vector of the virus disease bunchy top
- Fruit and leaf scarring beetle
- The beetle feeds on young leaves and skin of young fruits, occurrence is maximum in rainy season.