New fruit fly pest threatens mango cultivation in the South African Lowveld
date:Jun 16, 2017
cial production in the Nkomazi area and due to its proximity to both Mozambique and Swaziland, it is a buffer zone for the intensive mango and other subtropical fruit cultivation areas like Hoedspruit and Tzaneen.

Overripe mangoes are its main host and weve basically provided the fruit flies with a highway. By last year it was everywhere in the Lowveld, says Andries Bester, horticulturalist at Subtrop, the subtropical fruit industrys umbrella organisation. The polyphagous Oriental fruit fly can

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