Integrated pest management of cardamom

Cultural

• Destroy rhizomes infested with immature stages of the weevil
• Avoid planting banana inside the cardamom plantation and destroy host plant like Colocasia and Alocasia to control aphid infestation
• Cultivar Malabar variety, resistant to thrips. The hybrid Vazhukla is moderately resistant

Biological

• Field release of parasitoids Xanthopimpla australicus, pupal parasite of shoot borer
• Beauveria sp (white fungus) on hairy caterpillar
• Verticillium entertextum (Fungus) on aphids