date:Jun 16, 2017
ion. However, the value of their pest management is diminished if there is a continuous population pipeline of Oriental fruit flies only a few kilometres eastwards.
Some commercial mango enterprises have started placing fruit fly traps near where street hawkers are selling mangoes, often from informal orchards where pest management programmes are not in place.
In the Bushbuckridge and Nkomazi municipalities, crop advisers have been trained by the Tropical and Subtropical Crops division of the