Expert Advisory Details

Prevention of whitefly in cotton fields

Cotton: The crop must not be allowed to suffer from water stress during the flowering and fruiting stages.

• Eradicate the weeds like kanghibuti, peelibuti, puthkanda etc growing on cotton field bunds, waste lands, road side and irrigation channels/canals to avoid further spread of whitefly to cotton field.
• Regular survey of whitefly should be done on cotton and on other alternate host crops like moong.
• To control the attack of pink bollworms, use Sticka/Delta traps with at least 10 micro liter of gossyplure and place it at 15 cm above crop canopy. Replace the lure after 15 days and use 1 trap/ha.
• Uproot and destroy leaf curl virus infected plant from time to time.