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Keitt
    Keitt

  • Origin: Florida-Mulgoba
  • Fruit size: Large
  • Weight in grams: 256
  • Yield: Heavy
  • Fruit color: Green/yellow with pink or red blush
  • Fresh color: Yellow
  • Fibre content: None
  • Seed type: Monoembryonic
  • Fruit shape: Ovate, slightly oblique and plump
  • Seed percentage: 7.5
  • Eating quality: Good/excellent
  • Regularity of bearing: Regular
  • Tree habit: Moderate and upright
  • County: Mbeere Makueni
  • Harvesting season: March/April
  • Pest attack: Research ongoing
  • Disease: Black sport
  • Susceptibility: Moderate
  • Advantages: Late maturity, good marketing qualities and productivity
  • Disadvantages: Inadequate skin colouration, affected by internal breakdown, sunburn, bacterial black spot
  • Irrigation: Research ongoing
  • Fertilizer: Research ongoing
  • Pesticides: Research ongoing
  • Fungicides: Research ongoing

Pests and Diseases
 
Mango fruit fly

Mealybugs

Mango aphid

Powdery mildew
 
Anthracnose
Mango survey

Mbeere  

Kilifi  

Makueni

Mango varieties in Embu and Makueni by District
Challenges

Cultural practices

Postharvest treatment

Chemical control

Challenges to Mango planting
Improvement

Mango planting

Mango Improvement Strategy
  By: Phanuel Oballa and Rachel Kariuki                                                                                       © 2015 KEFRI/KALRO Mango Research