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Stem
remedies
- A new
path
breaking
concept
This is
a unique
system
of
spraying
remedial
solutions
on the
tree
stem
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Simple
Olfactometer
used
to study
the
reaction
of
animals
especially
insects,
to
specific
odours or
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Hot
Brining
for
mango
fruits,
if
your
mangoes
get
rotten
every
year due
to
worms....... |
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Pied
piper
technique
for
pheromones
Many
farmers
end up
with
more
pest
damage
when
they use
pheromones,
find out
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Hot brining |
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A new
technique against
the mango fruit fly
Bactrocera dorsalis
(Hend. )
Mango getting
spoilt by fruit flies-
this is one complaint
that we always get from
farms. If you are not
familiar with the name
fruit fly,
just see the photo
of
rotten
mangoes in the home page.
These worms on the fruit
are the maggots or other
wise young ones of an
insect very much related
to the house fly. The
fruits rot and you
lament on it
What can you do?
You
will read from the
internet that there are
techniques of
hot
water treatment
for
mangoes. There
are many temperature
ranges for varying
periods that various
countries insist to make
the fruit free from the
worms.
They will all need
mechanisms and methods
to keep a steady
temperature.
On the small farm or
individual holdings,
none of them may be
possible. And
tonnes and
tonnes
of fruit get rotten.
Here is a new technique-
HOT BRINING
or
hot salt water treatment
by
U’R foundation.
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What you do
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Harvest the mangoes
at
75-80%
maturity.
(Not
tree-ripe mangoes.
The best flavor and
sweetness will be
for the mangoes at
75-80% maturity).
This is the time
when the mango
fruits start
developing a small
dip just below the
fruit stalk.
This
technique
does not work when
the mango is fully
ripe.
Because,
by that time, the
fly eggs would have
become maggots. You
can’t kill them
easily.
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Dip them in hot
water prepared at
the rate of
¾ th
liter
boiling water to one
liter water. Add
common salt
at the rate of a
small spoonful –around
2 gms per
liter of the solution.That would be a
full scoop
in a teaspoon for
a 10 litre bucket.
Let the mangoes be fully
immersed in this salty
water.
If needed, keep
a brick
or wood piece
to keep the
mangoes dipped fully
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Leave it to cool
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After a few hours,
take out, wash
well in clean water,
wipe dry and keep
aside for a few
days.
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Cut the delicious
full ripe mangoes a
few days later and
savor.
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The hot water and
salt will kill the
eggs just below the
surface of the mango
and also is anti
fungal. So the
mangoes will not rot
due to disease or
the fruit fly. There
is also no dust or
flowed ooze. So
the mangoes are
sweeter, without
dirt, no fruit flies
or rotting and
uniformly ripe.
They are cleaner
too.
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Do not overheat. Do
not add more salt.
If some varieties
are very soft
skinned, use lower
concentration of
salt.
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This simple
technique is open to
all. Patentable, but
U’R foundation believes in simple solutions to complex problems.
In true socialistic
style, let a
thousand mangoes
spread their sweet
flavor. Let them be
the tool in the
fight against hunger
and the
fight against
spoilt
food.
Just see how the
temperatures come down
after the hot water dip
Use our innovations free
of royalty or rights.
The technique was
perfected by
Dr.A.M.Ranjith, founder
Director, a few years
back.
You will see the
difference of treatments
in the photograph below.
The four mangoes are the
treated ones
and the other three are
the non-treated ones
from the mangoes plucked
on the same day . The non-treated
have started rotting and
will have the worms
inside. The hot brined
ones will be grand.
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