Symptoms of damage:
- The birds damage starts from the milky stage and continues till harvest
- These consumes on an average of 152 seeds/day
Identification of the pest:
- It is slim, green parakeet with the typical short, heavy, deeply hooked, red bill. Hollow space in a tree trunk is the nest of the bid
Management:
- Establishment of scare crows in the field so as to distract the birds
- Bursting of crackers and carbide guns, tying polythene bags
- Use of bird scaring tape (reflective ribbon or bird scaring ribbon)
- Using bio-acoustic method like pre-recorded distress calls to distract the birds
- Destruction of bird nest in and around the field
- Deploy two labourers per hectare to scare away the birds
- Pruning of perching and breeding places
- Spraying of neem kernal powder solution at 10 g/litre of water after seed shedding repels the birds
- Use of bird proof nets
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