Indonesia: Innovation for large-scale fruit flies control on mango plants

My Agriculture— Sumedang Regency is one of the centers of mango production in Indonesia. Based on records from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Sumedang Regency has 341,000 mango trees (converted from 3,410 hectares) with a production of about 74 thousand tons per year. However, the area still often experiences obstacles in the form of fruit fly pests which are the cause of the greatest yield loss, including the mango gedong gincu plant. Mangoes that are attacked by fruit fly pests will rot slowly and eventually fall off. The export opportunity for Gedong Gincu mango is quite large. However, fruit fly attacks and chemical pesticide residues cause production to be hampered. Fruit damage due to this pest reaches 30-40 percent. As a result of this pest attack, mangoes from Indonesia are often rejected by producing countries, such as Japan and Australia. The farmers have actually carried out control, but the results are still not effective because it is still carried out partially ...