Integrated Pest Management

Monitoring for Pest & Disease  

• Community level monitoring to know change in destruction and abundance of pest.
• Organise regular pest monitoring and assess bio control potential at every 5 to 10 km distance at 12 spots/ha and 5 plants/spot selected randomly.
• Light traps should be installed and operated after sunset for 2 hours for monitoring the moth and jassid population.

 Pre-sowing stage 

• Deep ploughing to reduce the population of insect pest and nematodes.
• Synchronised sowing.
• Timely sowing and proper seed rate ( 5 kg of seed /ha)
• Grow resistant/tolerant varieties.
• Timely irrigation to maintain good crop stand
• Treat the seed with Trichoderma viride @ 4 gm/kg of seeds.
• Use bio-fertilizers Azospirallum and Phospho bacteria as recommended.
• Seed treatment with Agrimycin - 100 (250 ppm) or Streptocycline suspension 0.05% for 30 minutes for bacterial leaf spots.

Sowing stage

• Crop sanitation and weeding.
• Foliar spray with Mancozeb 1.125 -1.5 kg a.i/ha in 750 lit water for dry root rot.
• Rogue out diseased infected plants.

Vegetative stage 

• Collection and destruction of larvae.
• Use light traps for monitoring of lepidopteran pests.
• Spray Endosulfan 0.07% for hairy caterpillars
• For bacterial blight and leaf spot apply foliar spray of streptocycline (500 ppm)
• For seedling blight and alternaria leaf spot, spray 0.2% mancozeb or carbendazim 0.05%.
• For powdery mildew, spray 0.2% sulphur.

Flowering stage

• Clip the galls, pick and burn the shed buds.
• Rogue out the phyllody affected plants.
• Spray crop at the bud initiation stage with Dimethoate 0.03% or Endosulfan 0.07%.

Fruiting stage

• Uproot and destroyed phyllody affected plants.
• Spray Endosulfan 0.07%, Quinalphos 0.05% or Dimethoate 0.03%.

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