An investigation was performed for safe mango production by applying minimum use of pesticide, entitled studies on influence of bagging on physico-chemical properties and shelf life of mango cv. Mollika. Mango fruits were bagged at marble stage with different types of bags which constituted various treatments viz.: T1: Brown paper double layered bag (BPB), T2: White paper single layered bag (WPB), T3: Muslin cloth bag (MCB) and T0: Non-bagged (control). Bagging with brown paper bag and white paper bag improved fruit retention, weight of fruit, diameter of fruit, pulp weight, total soluble solids, ascorbic acid, percent of citric acid, reducing sugars and β-carotene at harvest and ripe stage over control. Brown paper bag improved fruit color, texture, appearance and sweetness. In all cases, good quality, cleaner, disease and insect free fruits were harvested. The sensory qualities in fruits of brown, white and muslin cloth bags were improved over control. Fruits treated with brown paper bag showed shelf life upto 18 days with lowest weight loss and good physical quality as against 15 days of untreated fruits (control). Pre-harvest bagging also reduced occurrence of spongy tissue and the incidence of mealy bugs. Thus it is concluded that fruit bagging influenced growth and development of mango fruit by the reductionof disease and insect-pest attack and also increases shelf life of mango.