Poor fruit set and retention followed by sun burning and cracking is a serious physiological disorder in litchi which is causing significant economic loss. Besides these, the pre-harvest quiescent infection with blight, anthracnose etc is also causing huge losses at post harvest stage. Considering these problems an experiment was conducted during 2010-13 to evaluate the effect of pre-harvest spray of various chemicals on fruit quality, yield and storage life of litchi fruits. Eight chemical treatments were sprayed twice on litchi fruits cv. Shahi, during fruit development stage and observations related to fruit retention, sun burning, cracking, fruit weight and other quality parameters were recorded and analyzed. | Effect of pre-harvest spray of chemicals on quality, yield and storage life of litchi fruits
