SURVEY ON PAPAYA VIRAL DISEASES IN MAJOR PAPAYA GROWING DISTRICTS IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

A survey was conducted at 10 upazilas of selected 6 major papaya growing districts of Bangladesh to investigate the papaya viral diseases. The study area were in upazila Kapasia and Sreepur under Gazipur district, Narshingdi Sadar under Norsinghdi district, Jhikargacha, Monirampur and Keshobpur upazila under Jessore district, Magura Sadar and Sripur upazila under Magura district, Kaliganj upazila under Jhinaidah district and Modhukhali upazila under Faridpur district. With the assistance of DAE, 20 farmers from each upazila were selected for interview on the incidence and severity of viral diseases of papaya crop in the field at seedling, flowering and fruiting stage. Direct personal interview approach was adopted for collection of primary data. Collected data were compiled, analysis and summarized by SPSS Software. Results exhibits that identified 3 different viral symptoms from all over working area at three distinct growth stage were selected for sample data collection. Ringspot, mosaic and leaf curl symptoms were found as common symptoms which cause severe damage to papaya. Experiment results revealed that from both at farmers level information and field survey inspection papaya ringspot symptoms were much destructive and cause severe losses of farmers papaya field. After papaya ringspot, papaya mosaic and papaya leaf curl were ranked, respectively and all of them were also serious in papaya growing investigated areas. It was observed that ringspot in fruit, leaf curl in leaves and in seedlings, mosaic in fruit and leaves were most destructive.