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Steps suggested to control pest attack

Staff Correspondent

Bidar: Scientists have advised farmers to take up integrated pest management to control the pod borer attack on the toor crop in Bidar.

Farmers should spray water with five per cent neem oil on the infested plants. Around 2 ml of a neem-seed-based solution with 1,500 ppm concentration should be used for a litre of water, agricultural scientists said.

Birds should be allowed to rest in the field. Long sticks with several twigs should be fixed at various places in the field. Bio-control measures such as spraying Helicovarp microbe added to water mixed with a bit of jaggery can also be taken up. Around 100 LE of microbes should be added to 300 l of water. Around 100 gm of blue whitener, and 500 gm of jaggery should be added to the solution. Indoxicarb 15 EC-0.3ml or 0.1 ml Sphinosod 45SP, or 2.5 ml Chloripyriphaus, 20 EC, or 1 gm aciphate, 75 SP or 2 ml Endosulphan, 35 EC, or 1 ml Monochrotophaus, 36 SP in each litre should be sprayed as the last measure. Around 400 litres of solution should be sprayed per acre of land.

Chemical fertilizers such as Prophenophaus, 50EC 2 ml or Thyodi Carb 75 WSC 0.6 gm or Methomil 40 SP 0.6 gm should be sprayed to destroy the eggs. Around 250 l of the solution should be used in each acre of land. Agricultural scientists have asked farmers not to use sugarcane stumps affected by woolly aphid for planting in the next season.

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