The present experiment was carried out during two successive years 2010–11 and 2011–12 to improve the fruit quality and reduce the black spotting in Amrapali mango with pre harvest foliar spray of CaCl2 @ 2% and K2SO4 @ 1% and fruit bagging. Trees of Amrapali mango were sprayed three times at 30, 20 and 10 days before harvesting. Fruit bagging with brown paper bag was employed at 20 days before harvesting of fruits. The results indicated that the spray of 2% CaCl2 and 1% K2SO4 combined with bagging was found superior to increased the quality of fruits in respect of fruits weight, TSS, ascorbic acid, sugars, β-carotene content and TSS acid ratio and decreased the total acidity with minimum black spotted fruits per cent and highest organoleptic quality among all treatments in both session.
Mango fruits, Amrapali, fruit quality, pre-harvest treatments, bagging, CaCl2, K2SO4
