by kavingeetMango & Guava Fruit Cover Bags
Bagging prevents insect pests, especially fruit flies, from finding and damaging the fruits. The bag provides physical protection from mechanical injuries (scars and scratches) and prevents female flies’ laying activities, latex burns, and fungal spots on the fruits. Although laborious, it is cheaper, safer, easier to do, and gives you a more reliable estimate of your projected harvest. Start bagging the mango fruit 55-60 days from flower bloom or when the fruits are about the size of a chicken egg. It is better to bag the fruit. It is healthier and no harm to the environment. The cost of the bags and time spent bagging could be even less than cost of poisons, time spent spraying and loss of fruit to flying foxes and birds. Especially skin color of the in Tom E.J.C Mango variety will become yellow only if it is covered by this specially made mango fruit covers. These covers have two layers in which outer cover is yellow and inner layer is black.
Fruit fly infestation adversely affects guava crop especially during summer and resulted in significant economic losses. Bagging techniques can protect fruits from pests and eliminates the use of pesticides, thus improves the quality of fruit. Guava farming through using fruit bagging technology has gradually been gaining popularity in Sri Lanka. Fruit bagging technology is being adjudged as very much beneficial to commercial fruit farming, horticulturists and farmers said.
Advantages Of Mango Protection Bags :
- The bag is sealed with iron wire, which strongly resist wind.
- Fruits can breathe can inside the bag & The bag paper is waterproof against rain.
- The bag can avoid fruits being hurt by strong sunshine, germs, birds & files.
- Help fruits get color, increase sugar, promote maturity and weight.
- Bag helps create a uniform color & avoid shading.
- Avoids the wastage cause from various climatic conditions.
- Bag helps to maintained a constant temperature inside which helps the fruit grow faster.
- Helps to grow the fruit in an organic way.
- Bags can be reused if used with proper care.