• Young plants dry up causing dead heart
• Ear heads- chaffy grains in the tip and well developed grains in the lower portion of ear heads

Identification of the pest:

• Adult - Greyish white fly

Management:

• Use seeds pelleted with insecticides
• Seed treatment with imidacloprid 70 WS 10 g/kg of seeds
• Plough soon after harvest, remove and destroy the stubbles.
• Set up the TNAU low cost fish meal trap 12/ha
• Spray any one of the following insecticides
  • Methyl demeton 25 EC 500 ml/ha
  • Dimethoate 30 EC 500 ml/ha
  • Neem seed kernel extract 5%
  • Neem Azal 1%