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Cultivation practices of Apricot( Prunus armeniaca)
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Cultivation practices of Kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa)
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Learn Fruit and Plantation Crop Production with Rahul
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PESTS

  1. 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.

 

  1. Rhizome weevil:
  • Damaged corms show feeding tunnels filled with mass of rotten tissues.

 

  1. Banana aphid:
  • vector of the virus disease bunchy top

 

  1. Fruit and leaf scarring beetle
  • The beetle feeds on young leaves and skin of young fruits, occurrence is maximum in rainy season.