Umesh Kumar Acharya1* and Debraj Adhikari2

1 National Citrus Research Program, Paripatle, Dhankuta

2 Plant Quarantine and Pesticide Management Centre, Lalitpur

*Correcponding author’s Email: umeshach@gmail.com

*Orcid ID: 0000-0001-9197-5010

Abstract
Citrus is cultivated in Nepal from time immemorial. To increase the production and productivity Nepal has established two governmental farms at Malepatan, Pokhara and Paripatle, Dhankuta in 1960s. Later one more farm with focus on citrus fruit development has been established at Palpa. However, commercial cultivation has not picked up due to many abiotic and biotic factors among them citrus greening disease is devastating one. There are reports of every citrus cultivating districts has been reported infected with this malady but the extent could be different. There is no single shot technology to manage this disease. Integrated management technology applied in other part of the world could be applied in Nepali context too. First of all use of healthy sapling, vector control, and removal of infected trees and quarantine system while transporting citrus sapling within district, province and country should be strictly followed.

Keywords: Asian Citrus Psylla, Citrus decline, Citrus greening, Quarantine system