Expert Advisory Details

In this way, prevent diseases affecting cotton, maize and sugarcane crop

COTTON- Eradicate the weeds growing on cotton field bunds, waste lands, road side and irrigation channels/canals to avoid further spread of whitefly to cotton field. Regular surveillance of whitefly on cotton should also be done.

• To control pimk ballworm, Use Sticka/Delta traps with at least 10 micro litre of gossyplure and place it at 15 cm above crop canopy. Replace the lure after 15 days and use 1 trap/ha.

SUGARCANE- For management of sugarcane pyrilla, use chlorpyriphos 20 EC @ 600 ml/acre in 400 lt of water.

• Baru weed being alternate host of mite, remove it if growing around the sugarcane fields to prevent mite spread.

MAIZE- Control maize borer by spraying 30ml Coragen 18.5SC in 60 litres of water per acre after weather clears up. Trichogramma, a bioagent can also be used as recommended by PAU.

• To manage fall armyworm on grain crop, spray the crop with Coragen 18.5 SC (@ 0.4 ml or Delegate 11.7 SC @ 0.5 ml or Missile 5 SG @ 0.4 g per litre of water after weather clears up. Direct the spray nozzle towards the whorl, for its effective control.