Mr. Nguyen Van Son, Director of Lam Dong’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the damage caused by tea mosquito bugs on cashew in the province is estimated at 400 billion.

In addition, tea mosquito bugs damage on some fruit trees such as durian, mangosteen, rambutan. The total area of the cashew nut was 29,245 hectares, of which 18,120 hectares were severely infected.

In addition, the area of other fruit trees damaged including durian 2,339 ha, mangosteen 131 ha and rambutan 26 ha. Up to now, tea mosquito bugs have been basically corrected. However, due to tea mosquito bugs occurring at the time of flowering of cashew trees, the extent of damage caused by the epidemic has significantly affected the livelihoods and income of the people in the three southern districts of Lam Dong. Cashew production in 2017 is nearly lost, estimated at about 3,000 tons, 18% of the plan.

Tea mosquito bugs are migratory insects that move from one garden to another, resulting in rapid reproductive damage. Kra Jan Dian, a coffee farmer in Lac Duong town, said that tea mosquito bugs not only harmed cashew nuts but also attacked coffee trees. Mr. Dian said his coffee garden was infected with mosquito bugs from 10/2016, so far almost any coffee garden with shoots are also.

According to the experience of Kra Jan Đian, in previous years, coffee gardens have been affected to reduce 65-70% of yield, so with the current situation of mosquito bugs harmful, coffee growers like He is very worried

Prior to 2014, the main target for mosquito bugs was tea and cashews. However, due to weather and climate change, mosquitoes are gradually finding and selecting coffee and some other fruit trees to harm.

(According to danviet.vn)