Expert Advisory Details

PAU Advisory for Cotton and Sugarcane Crop

Cotton: Monitor the crop regularly for whitefly attack and spray should be done when population reaches 6 adults/leaf in the upper canopy of the plant before 10 AM.

• Control cotton jassid by spraying 80g Ulala 50WG or Osheen 20 SG or 40ml Confidor 200 SL or Imidacel /Markdor/Isogashi 17.8SL or Confidence 555 or 40 g Actara/Dotara/Thomson/Extra Super 25WG in 100 litres of water per acre.

Sugarcane: For management of sugarcane pyrilla, use chlorpyriphos20EC@600ml/acrein 400lt of water

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