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FARM QUERIES

Unfit for consumption

The mango fruits from our garden are infested with worms rendering them unfit for consumption. What can be done to control the entry of worms in the fruits?

V.C. Raghavan Nambiar
Kannur

Worm infestation in mangoes usually occurs during the flowering stages. You may spray cypermethrin or malathion 2 ml diluted in one litre of water when the trees start flowering weekly once for a month.

Problem in tamarind

Is there any method to induce fruiting in my two tamarind trees?

P.D. Krishnaswamy
Chennai

You have to prune the branches and one gram of aluminium sulphate and urea each diluted in about ten litres of water should be sprayed once every ten days.

V.C. RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR

Kannur

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