Cultural Management
- Destroy all volunteer
plants and old neglected plantations
- Use healthy and pest
free suckers for planting
- Hot water treatment
prior to planting.
- Bunch cover protection (which covers the full
length of the bunch) applied very early stage. Regular checking of fruit
under the bunch covers is essential to ensure the damage.
- Field release of
coccinelid predators like lacewings, ladybird beetles