2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 10

author(s)
Medaboina Akhilesh, P Harikanth, M Rajashekar and B Madhavi

abstract
Fruit bagging has emerged as a novel technology in practice, which is simple, grower friendly, safe and beneficial for the production of quality mangoes. The present investigation entitled “Effect of pre-harvest fruit bagging on sensory and economics of mango cv. Banganapalli” was undertaken during the year 2024 at Fruit Research Station, Sangareddy, to determine the profitability and fruit quality of mango using different bagging materials consisting of newspaper bag, reddish brown paper bag, butter paper bag, yellow paper bag, muslin cloth bag, polythene bag, nylon bag, non-woven bag along with no bagging or control in a RBD design. Among the different bagging materials used in Banganapalli mango, non-woven bag and brown paper bag was found most effective in several sensory parameters and benefit cost ratio. The non-woven bag recorded the highest sensory scores for flavour (8.33), texture (8.67), taste (8.67) and overall acceptability (8.33), similar results were observed with Reddish brown paper bag with the highest benefit-to-cost ratio of 10.38. Bagging technology numerically increased the level of mango production per hectare with 13,470 kg and gross return of Rs. 8, 07,996 and net return of Rs. 6, 64,996, respectively. With higher production and price bagging technology adopters had numerically higher benefit to cost ratio of 4.94, followed by Non-woven bag of 4.65 and the least in Muslin cloth bag 1.90. The results of this study clearly demonstrate that it is advisable to use brown paper bag or Non-woven bag for getting golden yellow colored fruits. Apart from this, as the market price of the bagged mango is lucrative the growers can sell their produce at high price.