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Insect Pest Management

Thrips

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Spray PNSPE  or neem soap/pongamia soap (10 g/l) as given in a separate note on IPM

or

Spray  Acetamiprid 20 WP (0.2g/l) or Dimethoate 30 EC (1.5 ml/l) or  Ethion 50 EC (2.0 ml/l)  or Fipronil 5 SC (2.0ml/l)

or

Spray half of the recommended dose of any insecticide mixed with pongamia oil (2.0 ml/l of water) + sticker (0.5 ml/l) + water  and  made into emulsion by shaking thoroughly.

Mites (white mites)

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Spray PNSPE (40 g/l) or neem soap (10 g/l) or  Wettable Sulphur 80 WP (3.0g/l) or  Diafenthiuron 50 WP (1.0 g/l) or Emamectin Benzoate 5 SG (0.3 ml/l) or Milbemectin 40 SP (0.65ml/l)

Aphids

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Spray PNSPE (40 g/l) or  Fipronil 5 SC (1.0 ml/l) or Quinalphos 25 EC (2.0 ml/l) or Oxydemeton-methyl 25 EC (2ml/l).

Borers (Helicoverpa and Spodoptera spp)

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Spray specific NPV@ 100 LE/acre in the evening as soon as young caterpillars of the borers are noticed. Mix 1% jaggery and sticker (0.5 ml/l)  before spray.

Collect and destroy the borer infested fruits along with borer.

Spray Indoxacarb 14.5 SC  (1.0 ml/l) or Thiodicarb 75WP (1.0 g/l) or  Chlorantraniliprole 18.5 EC (0.3 ml/l) or Deltamethrin 2.8 EC (1.0 ml/l) or  Emamectin Benzoate 5 SG (0.4 ml/l)  or Fipronil  5 SC (2.0 ml/l) or Flubendiamide 20 WG (0.25 ml/l)

Tobacco  caterpillar (Spodoptera)
(Egg masses and young caterpillars)

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Collect and destroy egg masses and gregarious larvae.

Spray Novaluron 10 EC (0.65 ml/l) or Novaluron 5.25 EC + Indoxocarb 4.5 SC (1.70 ml/l)

Cut worm/army worms  (Grown up Spodoptera spp)

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Do Poison baiting

Gall midge

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Spray PNSPE (40 g/l) during flower bud stage and repeat at 7-10 days interval. 

Disease Management

Damping-Off of seedlings

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Soil drench with Captaf (2.0 g/l) or Copper oxychloride (3.0g/l)

Powdery mildew

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Spray Wettable Sulphur (3.0g/l) (before flowering only) or Tridemorph (1.0ml/l) or Hexaconazole (0.5ml/l) or Dinocap (1ml/l) or Flusilazole (0.3 ml/l) or Myclobutanil (1.0 g/l) or Neem oil emulsified (10-15ml/l) at 10-15 days interval from the onset of the disease.

Phytopthora blight

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Spray Mancozeb (2.0 g/l) or Copper oxychloride (3.0 g/l), Copper hydroxide (2.0g/l) or Fosetyl-Al (2.0 g/l) or combination of Dimethomorph (1.0 g/l) + Metiram (2.0 g/l)

Anthracnose

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Spray Carbendizim (1.0g/l) or Thiophanate methyl (1.0g/l) or Tricyclozole (0.6g/l).

Leaf spot

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Spray Carbendizim (1.0g/l) or Mancozeb (2.0g/l) or combination of Carbendazim+ Mancozeb (2.0g/l)

Alternaria Blight

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Drench seedlings with Copper oxychloride (3.0 g/l) 12days after sowing and repeat one day before transplanting.

Spray Copper oxychloride (3.0g/l) or Chlorothalonil (2.0g/l) or Mancozeb (2.0g/l) or Propineb (2.0g/l) or Metiram (2.0g/l) or Pyraclostrobin + Metiram (2.0g/l) at 10-15 days interval or as and when required.

Bacterial wilt

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Drenching of seedling with Pseudomonas fluorescens

Leaf curl

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Uproot and destroy the leaf curl infected plants up to first harvest.
Spray Imidacloprid 200S L (0.3ml/l) or Thiomethoxom 25 WP (0.3g/l) in nursery after 15 days of sowing and after 15 days of planting in main field
Drench the seedlings with Imidacloprid 200SL (0.3ml/l) or Thiomethoxom 25 WP (0.3g/l)  one day before transplanting

Chilli Veinal Mottle & CMV

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Uproot and destroy the infected plants up to first harvest.
Spray Imidacloprid 200S L (0.3ml/l) or Thiomethoxom 25 WP (0.3g/l) in nursery after 15 days of sowing and after 15 days of planting in main field
Drench the seedlings with Imidacloprid 200SL (0.3ml/l) or Thiomethoxom 25 WP (0.3g/l)  one day before transplanting



Designed & Developed by Dr. Reena Rosy Thomas & Dr. M.K Chandra Prakash,
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru 560 089