Expert Advisory Details

Management of top-borer in sugarcane crop

Sugarcane: Irrigate the crop at 7-12 days interval and apply second dose of urea @ 65kg per acre along the rows to plant crop.

• For the management of top-borer, release Tricho-cards having 20,000 eggs of rice moth parasitized by Trichogramma japonicum at 10 days interval up to end June. Pheromone traps @ 10 per acre can be used along with the recommended Tricho-card application.
• Check attack of top-borer by applying 10 kg Ferterra 0.4 GR or 12 kg of Furadan/Diafuran/Furacarb/Fury 3G (carbofuran) per acre at the base of shoots of sugarcane during the last week of June, only if the top borer damage exceeds 5 % level. Earth up slightly and give light irrigation to the crop immediately.
• Black bug sometimes becomes serious particularly on ratoon crop during this month. Check this pest by spraying 350 ml of Dursban/Lethal/Massban/Goldban 20 EC (chlorpyriphos) in 400 litres of water per acre. Direct the spray into the leaf whorl.
• If dry weather conditions prevail, mite may also cause severe damage to this crop. Baru is the alternative host plant from which spreads mite to sugarcane crop. So remove Baru weed growing around the sugarcane fields.