Symptoms of damage:

• Nymphs and adults inject toxins resulting in whitening of veins and chlorotic patches especially at the tips of leaflets, in a typical 'V' shape.
• Heavily attacked crop looks yellow and gives a scorched appearance known as 'hopper burn'.

Identification of the pest:

• Adult: Elongate, active, wedge shape, green insects  

Management:

• Timely sowing of the crop and field sanitation
• Crop rotation with non-host crop
• Intercropping with pearl millet
• Avoid groundnut-castor inter crop, it increases the infestation
• Irrigate once to avoid prolonged mid season drought to prevent pre-harvest
• Spray dimethoate 30EC @ 650ml/ha in 600 liter water