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The optimum temperature for storing mango is 13°C and it can be stored upto 3 weeks  depending on the variety.

The spots on the fruit can be due to the infections of Psuedocercospora punicae or Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and both these can be easily controlled through the spray of Thiophanate methyl or carbendazim or mancozeb or chlorothalonil.

Pre harvest spray  with carbendazim or Thiophanate methyl followed by  hot water treatment or salt water dipping effectively controls this fruit rots in mango.

Pre-cooling is not compulsory when the mangoes are exported by air.

Pre harvest spray  with carbendazim or Thiophanate methyl followed by  hot water treatment or salt water dipping effectively controls this fruit rots in mango.

An official documents issued by the country exporting plant or plant material which attests the phytosanitary status of the consignment.

The powdery mildew is a serious disease which attacks leaves and inflorescence.  The disease is effectively controlled through the sprays  of Tridemorph, Dinocap and wettable sulphur.

Banana should be stored at 13°C to 15°C and the fruits are susceptible to chilling injury  (blackening of surface and failure to ripen) when stored below this temperature.

A pest of potential national economic importance to the country at risk and not present there.

The above disease is called powdery mildew and is common during cloudy period.  To check this disease, sprays of Tradimefon, fenarimol, cyper conzol, sulphur, and myclobutanil are recommended.

Corresponding to these  Olive spots  white fluffy growth of the fungus is most common during October pruned Crop. This disease can be easily controlled through the sprays of phosphoric acid, metalaxyl mancozeb Al-phosetyl and cymoxanil.The spray interval should be 5-7 days during rainy season.

This consists of recording those characters which are highly heritable, can be easily seen by the eye are equally expressed in all environments. These enable an easy and quick discrimination between phenotypes. These include growth, leaf, flower, fruit and seed traits, which generally gives the overall picture of the range of diversity in the germplasm collections.

The optimum ethrel concentration for ripening of banana is 300 to 350 ppm (for dipping) and for ethylene gas exposure the concentration is upto 100 ppm depending on the time of exposure.  The optimum ripening temperature to get bright yellow colour is 20-25°C.

In April pruning, anthracnose, Greenaria leaf spot and fruit rot and rust are the common diseases infecting leaves and canes.  They can be easily controlled through sprays of chlorothalonil (0.2%) Carbendazim (0.1%) and Thiophanate methyl (0.1%) at fortnightly intervals

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