Main Diseases and Insect Pests of Pitaya in Yiyang City and Their Comprehensive Prevention and Control Measures
- Received Date: 17/08/2021
Abstract: In recent years, pitaya planting has developed rapidly in Yiyang area, but in the practice of planting and production, farmers have insufficient understanding of controlling diseases and insect pests. Ineffective prevention and control resulted in the decline of pitaya production and quality year by year. In order to effectively control the diseases and insect pests of pitaya fruit, this paper introduced the main diseases and insect pests of pitaya in Yiyang city in detail, and put forward a series of prevention and control measures. The results found that the main diseases of pitaya in Yiyang area are canker, stem rot, black rot, anthrax, black spot, stem blight, base rot, fruit rot, root rot, etc. The main insect pests are Tephritidae, Prodenia litura, Fruticicolidae, aphids, Coccoidea, Nipaecoccus vastalor, etc. In order to improve the yield and quality of pitaya fruit in this area, the integrated pest control techniques were summarized, which were mainly agricultural control, physical control and biological control, supplemented by chemical control.