Monitoring for Pest & Disease

• Visual observation at weekly intervals at vegetative, flowering and poding stages for Heliothis.
• Use pheromone traps(5 traps/ha) for Heliothis monitoring.

Pre-sowing stage 

• Deep ploughing of the field.
• Early sowing.
• Growing resistant /tolerant varieties.
• Timely irrigation
• Soil application of Phorate or Carbofuran granules @ 1.0 kg a.i. per ha

Sowing stage

• Timely sowing, proper seed rate, irrigation and fertlizer management to have a desirable crop stand.
• Intercultural and hand weeding to keep to crop weed free initially for 4-6 weeks.

Vegetative stage 

• Look for the plants infested with 1st/2nd instar larvae of hairy caterpilla, collect and destroy them.
• Light traps are very effective against hairy caterpillar.