The Present investigation was carried out in a private farm located at at Kafr El-Sohbi village,
Qalubia governorate, Egypt, to study the effect of bagging type on reducing Keitt mango fruit
disorders and improving fruit quality during 2014 and 2015 seasons. The bagging treatments were,
without bag (control), news paper bag, white paper bag, agrail white bag, agrail red bag, agrail blue
bag and agrail green bag. The treatments started at early June and sustained till harvest time. The
obtained results showed that, bagging fruits with agrail red bag increased number of fruits per tree,
fruit weight, yield per tree and vitamin C content. While, the number &weight of sunburn fruits /tree
was reduced as compared to the other treatments. Moreover, bagging fruits with agrail green bag
increased fruit length, fruit thickness, TSS %. On the other hand, bagging fruits with news paper bag
increased fruit firmness and total acidity percentage. Moreover, bagging with agrail white bag had a
significant effect on increasing values of lightness (L). While, bagging with agrail blue bag had a
significant effect on higher values of hue angle (h) compared to the other treatments. Generally, it can
be recommended from this study that, bagging Keitt mango fruits with agrail red bag and agrail blue
bag was the best in reducing fruit disorders with improving fruit quality.
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