Papaya Fruit Pests and Development of Integrated Pest Managements: Critical Review

Abstract

Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is one of the most popular fruit plants grown widely under tropical and sub-tropical climates although it is suffering due diseases and few insect pests globally. It is affected by fungal diseases (anthracnose and mildews Black spot), bacteria (wilt) and virus (papaya ring spot virus) and insect pest (papaya fruit fly, webworm, whitefly, mites, aphids, scales, mealy bugs, leafhoppers and hornworms. Of these pests, the papaya fruit fly is especially important because it is difficult to control) like other fruit crops grown in the same or different agro ecology; among them the fungal diseases are the most common one.  For those pests, Integrated management strategies have been developed in the way that combining various control measures  like cultural,  biological and chemicals; since  single control method alone is not effective and environmentally friendly.  Generally, cultural practices (proper management), sanitation, biological, pesticides as the last option have been developed for proper pest management of diseases and insects pest and sustainable farming. However, no more experiments have been done in combination of these management tactics in Ethiopian context.

Keywords: Anthracnose, Biological, chemical, cultural and fruit fly

DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/12-15-01

Publication date:August 31^st 2022