The Mango Industry: Recent Major Events

摘要

Bondad (1989) summarized the events that took place between mango's introduction to the Philippines in the 15th century up to the publication of "The mango (especially as observed in the Philippines)" in 1989 (Bondad, 1989a). He discussed in the latter the details of the events, among others. The following is a continuation of the formerpaper covering 1990 to 1995. It is also aimed at citing three major events that skipped my attention during the preparation of the earlier summary. One is "internal breakdown." M.C.C. Lizada led studies (e.G., Gautam and Lizada, 1984) to elucidate the cause(s) of internal breakdown in 'Carabao' mango. In the same yearFitzell et. al., applied a technique to estimate when and to what extent anthracnose infection will occr. This approach, tested in Cavite, could reduce the fungicidal sprays (from 12 to 50 required to control anthracnose. Another major event is the infestation of the mango in Southern Palawan by pulp weevil. Sternochetus frigidus. which is believed to have originated in Borneo. This was first reported in 1987 (De Jesus, undated). A quarantine order, in effect until mid-1996, banning the shipment of fruits from Palawan to other provinces has been lifted.I could not include otherpossibly important eventsbecause information available at hand are insufficient. I believe that some events are not really that important to be included here. What makes an event major orminor depends, of course, on the writers' perspective. Golez (undated), for example, considers the 1978 "national ecological survey on mango seed weevil" as significant but this insect pest is so minor that Gabriel (1975) mentioned it only as injurious to mango; and other authorities (Bato, 1985; Cendana et al., 1983; Deang and Pordesimo, 1978) do not even regard the weevil as a pest.