Protection from the pink mealybug

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

Date

2001

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CTA. 2001. Protection from the pink mealybug. Spore 91. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/46085

Internet URL: http://spore.cta.int/images/stories/pdf/old/spore91.pdf

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The Pink Mealybug. Protocols for the Protection of Agricultural Production and Trade By R D Gautam, R N Pilgrim & V E Stewart, CARDI & CTA, 2000. 60 pp. ISBN 976 617 007 x CTA number 1018 . 5 credit points

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The pink mealybug (PMB) has been a major agricultural disaster sweeping across the Caribbean in the past decade. The bug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus, has caused enormous damage to all kinds of crops, fruits, flowers and vegetables and it has brought international and inter-island trade in many products to a complete standstill. The Pink Mealbug manual discusses the integration of practices in production, harvesting and packaging necessary for quarantine security. Treatments include methyl bromide, hot water and magnesium phosphide. The Pink Mealybug. Protocols for the Protection of Agricultural Production and Trade By R D Gautam, R N Pilgrim & V E Stewart, CARDI & CTA, 2000. 60 pp. ISBN 976 617 007 x CTA number 1018 . 5 credit points