Pollachi farmers receive guidance from TNAU on managing high-infestation of mango mealybug

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A mango infected by mealybug astatine  an orchard successful  Pollachi successful  Coimbatore district.

A mango infected by mealybug astatine an orchard successful Pollachi successful Coimbatore district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Having detected precocious infestation of mealybug, a sap-sucking insect pest, successful mango orchards successful and astir Pollachi, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has advocated integrated absorption practices to evade losses successful yield.

The involution has been recommended to farmers astatine antithetic stages.

The pest, posing a superior menace to mango cultivation by affecting histrion growth, flowering, and effect setting, suck sap from leaves, tender shoots, angiosperm stalks, and processing fruits, thereby affecting the mean maturation of the crop, according to TNAU scientists.

Published - March 02, 2026 08:24 p.m. IST

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